Shakespeare Machiavelli and Montaigne

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Shakespeare Machiavelli and Montaigne

Author	: Hugh Grady
File Size	: 45,6 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 May 2024
ISBN	: 0199257604
Pages	: 320 pages

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Shakespeare Machiavelli and Montaigne by Hugh Grady Book PDF Summary

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.

Shakespeare Machiavelli and Montaigne by Hugh Grady

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