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Shakespeare's political animal : schema and schemata in the canon

Alan Hager
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
164 pages ; 24 cm
9780874133714, 0874133718
20319215
Part one: benevolent deception and rule
The concept of the Machiavellian ruler of sonnet 94 and its discontents
Teaching the sly animal to be civil: The taming of the shrew as Shakespeare's anatomy of education
From Hal to Henry V: the deceptive ruler and his discontents
Part two: leveling, through rivalry and victimization
"Remorse with myself with his words": Shakespeare's schematic picture of factional behavior
"The teeth of emulation": failed sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Part three: the politics of literary borrowing and exclusion
Publishing the politics of literary expropriation: Lyly and Marlowe in 1 Henry IV
Exorcizing the moral Jonsonian citizen comedy in Shakespeare's Twelfth night, or, What you will
Sacrificing the mysteries: dismembering the text in early criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Part four: self-destructive tyranny in oligarchy and monarchy
England's Sicily and Shakespeare's critique of gallantry in Much ado about nothing
What rusts the soul: Shakespeare's Macbeth and the invention of the conscience
Part five: ideal solutions and their discontents
Shakespeare's critique of the mirage of The green world and As you like it and The winter's tail
Hierarchy and freedom in the new world: Duke Prospero's education in the Yare
Epilogue: Ulysses' political thought and action in reverse