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<p><em>Shakespeare's Politics</em> is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.<br> The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. <em>Shakespeare's Politics</em> is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.</p>

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Author

Robin Headlam Wells

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472555427

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Literary Criticism