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Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne by Hugh Grady - ISBN: 9780199257607
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The four plays of Shakespeare’s Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negat…

Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne

Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet

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    298 pages

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    28 November 2002

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Summary

From 1595-1600 Shakespeare dissected the workings of political power in the four histories of the Henriad and in Hamlet in ways which were remarkably parallel - and were perhaps influenced by - the ideas of the father of modern political analysis, Niccolò Machiavelli. However, the very same plays simultaneously explored the dynamics of self- and identity-formation under new conditions of secular modernity, in the process producing such memorablecharacters as Richard II, Prince Hal, Falstaff, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199257607
ISBN-10:0199257604
Author:Hugh Grady
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:298
Release Date:28 November 2002
Weight:479g
Dimensions:223mm x 146mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

Grady provides an important reevaluation of the relevance of Machiavelli and Montaigne to the drama Shakespeare wrote from 1595 to 1600. Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakepeare and critical theory.

About The Author

Hugh Grady

Hugh Grady is Professor of English at Arcadia University.

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