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The Third Citizen : Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801893278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Third CitizenDDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR3017.A48
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on References and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE: Parliament in Shakespeare's England -- 1 "An epitome of the whole realme": Absorption and Representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- 2 Cade's Mouth: Swallowing Parliament in the First Tetralogy -- TWO: Political Representation in Shakespeare's Rome -- 3 "Their tribune and their trust": Political Representation, Property, and Rape in Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece -- 4 "Caesar is turn'd to hear": Theater, Popular Dictatorship, and the Conspiracy of Republicanism in Julius Caesar -- 5 "Worshipful mutineers": From Demos to Electorate in Coriolanus -- Epilogue. Losing Power, Losing Oneself: The Third Citizen and Tragedy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
Summary: Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on References and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE: Parliament in Shakespeare's England -- 1 "An epitome of the whole realme": Absorption and Representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- 2 Cade's Mouth: Swallowing Parliament in the First Tetralogy -- TWO: Political Representation in Shakespeare's Rome -- 3 "Their tribune and their trust": Political Representation, Property, and Rape in Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece -- 4 "Caesar is turn'd to hear": Theater, Popular Dictatorship, and the Conspiracy of Republicanism in Julius Caesar -- 5 "Worshipful mutineers": From Demos to Electorate in Coriolanus -- Epilogue. Losing Power, Losing Oneself: The Third Citizen and Tragedy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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