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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199257604

ISBN-139780199257607

eBay Product ID (ePID)2313162

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Number of Pages298 Pages

Publication NameShakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne : Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectDrama, European / French, Shakespeare, History & Theory, Semiotics & Theory, Political

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science

AuthorHugh Grady

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-035572

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Hugh Grady's Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne is a clever, intelligent, and well-written book."--Richard Strier, The University of Chicago"The core chapters of the book are consistently rewarding and often brilliant readings of Richard II and the Henriad in relation to early modern philosophy and political theory."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "Hugh Grady's Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne is a clever, intelligent, and well-written book."--Richard Strier, The University of Chicago "The core chapters of the book are consistently rewarding and often brilliant readings of Richard II and the Henriad in relation to early modern philosophy and political theory."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "Hugh Grady'sShakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigneis a clever, intelligent, and well-written book."--Richard Strier, The University of Chicago "The core chapters of the book are consistently rewarding and often brilliant readings ofRichard IIand the Henriad in relation to early modern philosophy and political theory."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Grady provides an important reevaluation of the relevance of Machiavelli and Montaigne to the drama Shakespeare wrote from 1595 to 1600. Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakepeare and critical theory., Grady provides an important reevaluation of the relevance of Machiavelliand Montaigne to the drama Shakespeare wrote from 1595 to 1600. Grady again hasmade a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakepeare and criticaltheory., Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakespeare and critical theory.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822.3/3

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. A Shakespeare Machiavellian Moment, 1595-1600: An Overview2. The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne3. Montaigne, Shakespeare, and the Construction of Modern Subjectivity4. The Resistance to Power in 1 Henry IV: Subjectivity in the World5. The Reified Worlds of 2 Henry IV and Henry VConclusionBibliographyIndex

SynopsisThe four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power - not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor., From 1595-1600 Shakespeare dissected the workings of political power in the four histories of the Henriad and in Hamlet in ways which were remarkably parallel - and were perhaps influenced by - the ideas of the father of modern political analysis, Niccolò Machiavelli. However, the very same plays simultaneously explored the dynamics of self- and identity-formation under new conditions of secular modernity, in the process producing such memorablecharacters as Richard II, Prince Hal, Falstaff, and Hamlet. Hugh Grady argues that in analyzing modern subjectivity, Shakespeare re-produced not the ideas of Machiavelli, but those of Michel de Montaigne, that Renaissancedefiner of shifting identities and subjectivities and of complexly formed, sceptical knowledge. In so doing, Shakespeare in effect contributes to the theoretical debates over power and subjectivity in literary and cultural studies at the dawn of the twenty-first century., The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.

LC Classification NumberPR3001