Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, French Drama - Literary Criticism, English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Renaissance
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Overview
Authority and Desire focuses on the complexity of political discourse in a selection of Shakespeare's Jacobean dramas and Racine's tragedies. Particular attention is paid to the relations dramatised between the transforming communities of the governing and the governed in these plays. This wide-ranging study reveals how the formulation of such relations is profoundly involved with the cultural theorising of authority (linked to the legitimising forces of caste, kinship, gender expectation, sanctification and so on), and with the politics of human desire stimulated by the cultural spectacles of power assertion.Editorials
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Hiscock (English, Trinity College, Carmarthen) focuses on the complexity of political discourse in a selection of Shakespeare's Jacobean dramas and Racine's tragedies, with a focus on the plays' dramatic representations of the relations between the governing and the governed. The author asserts that the formulation of such relations in involved with the cultural theorizing of authority and with the politics of human desire stimulated by the cultural spectacles of power assertion. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
June 9, 1996
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1996.
Pages
318
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820428789