The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics by Chris ... - 9781032534596

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and PoliticsAuthor(s): Chris Fitter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032534596, 978-1032534596\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics challenges and transforms our understanding of the politics of Shakespeares plays. Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic examination of dominant institutions and emergent thought in Shakespeares society, then meditation on Shakespeares representation of these.\n\nContributors consider the common law and the legally embattled royal prerogative, the functioning of the justice system, the impact of angry Tudor reformers, early capitalism, war, libels, rebellion, populism, religion, and cosmological ferment, as well as the class system, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and theatrical transgression. Opening chapters discuss the harsh politicisation of.