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The king within: reformations of power in William Shakespeare and Pedro Calderón de la Barca by Anita Howard is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The king within: reformations of power in William Shakespeare and Pedro Calderón de la Barca about?
This book contrasts the portrayal of kings and kingship in the drama of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81), concentrating on the ways in which both dramatists use the individual complexities of their kingly characters to address the intellectual and moral dilemmas of the ideological backgrounds that helped to create them. Against the background of seventeenth-century Europe, when religious and political reformation was leading to recon
Who reads The king within: reformations of power in William Shakespeare and Pedro Calderón de la Barca?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anita Howard
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783039115303
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Science, Poetry, Subjects &
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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