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Power on display : the politics of Shakespeare's genres

This study of Shakespeare pursues the thesis that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre "staged displays which created political literacy...the stage was a place for disseminating an iconography of state."
Print Book, English, 1986
Methuen, New York, 1986
Criticism, interpretation, etc
206 pages ; 25 cm
9780416012712, 9780416012811, 041601271X, 0416012817
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Introduction: Shakespeare and the scene of reading
Staging carnival: Comedy and the politics of the aristocratic body
Rituals of state: History and the Elizabethan strategies of power
The theatre of punishment: Jacobean tragedy and the politics of misogyny
Family rites: City comedy, romance, and the strategies of patriarchalism