Shakespeare's Political Drama

by Leggatt, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780415006552
• ISBN10: 0415006554
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul

Summary

In "Shakespeare's Politcal Drama, "Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shakespeare not as the propogandist for a myth of order, but as concerned both with things as they are and with things as they ought to be. Leggatt sees each play as a fresh experiment, so that what emerges is not a single homogeneous view of Shakespearean politics but a series of explorations of differing material.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Note on the Texts	p. xv
Henry VI	p. 1
Richard III	p. 32
Richard II	p. 54
Henry IV	p. 77
Henry V	p. 114
Julius Caesar	p. 139
Antony and Cleopatra	p. 161
Coriolanus	p. 189
Henry VIII	p. 214
Conclusion	p. 238
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 261
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