Shakespeare's plays provide vivid explorations of the paradoxes, logic and corruption of politics. This book argues that Shakespeare was an exceptionally political literate writer with a subtle grasp of how politics works, how it is corrupted, and why we should never lose sight of its promise. In a group of plays centred on 'the tragedies', "Shakespeare" brings into focus, a range of problems and paradoxes of politics - its relationship with violence, the question of sovereignty and where it should lie, the problems of political rule in relation to economic, sexual, and religious power. Elizabeth Frazer reveals what Shakespeare has to say to a political present where intense hope and desire for a political way forward is mixed up with apathy and exhaustion and with violent defiance of politics."Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It goes back to the source - the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.
- ISBN10 0826489265
- ISBN13 9780826489265
- Publish Date 31 May 2008
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 8 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English