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Title Shakespeare and the politics of commoners : digesting the new social history / edited by Chris Fitter
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Contents Cover; Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners: Digesting the New Social History; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depth of Politics; 1; 2; 3; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 2: The Paradoxes of 'Popularity' in Shakespeare's History Plays; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 3: Shakespeare's Commonwealth; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 4: Brave Minds and Hard Hands: Work, Drama, and Social Relations in the Hungry 1590s; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; BOOKS AND ARTICLES; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
5: The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare's Richard III: Hidden and Public Transcripts1; 2; 3; 4; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 6: The Plebeians Revise the Uprising: What the Actors Made of Shakespeare's Jack Cade-Or, Laughing with the English Radical Tradition; 1; 2; 3; 4; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 7: Shakespeare and the 'Military Revolution: 'The Cultural and Social Weapons of Reformed War; 1. THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL MAP; 2. THE MILITARY REVOLUTION AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REVOLUTION; 3. POPULAR PERCEPTIONS OF GUNPOWDER WEAPONS; 4. MEN 'OF NO NAME'; BIBLIOGRAPHY
8: Popularity and the Art of Rhetoric: Julius Caesar in Context1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 9: Rehearsing the Plebeians: Coriolanus and the Reading of Roman History; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 10: 'As Full of Grief as Age': Protesting against the Poor Law in King Lear; 1. A CLIMATE OF HARDENED HEARTS; 2. THE CALCULUS OF NEED; 3. DO POOR TOM SOME CHARITY (187); BIBLIOGRAPHY; 11: Experiences of Authority in The Tempest; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Afterword; Index
Summary Shakespeare and the politics of commoners is a highly original contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. It breaks important new ground in introducing readers, lay and scholarly alike, to the existence and character of the political culture of the mass of ordinary commoners in Shakespeare's England, as revealed by the recent findings of 'the new social history'. The volume thereby helps to challenge the traditional myths of a non-political commons and a culture of obedience. It also brings together leading Shakespeareans, who digest recent social history, with eminent early modern social historians, who turn their focus on Shakespeare. This genuinely cross-disciplinary approach generates fresh readings of over ten of Shakespeare's plays and locates the impress on Shakespearean drama of popular political thought and pressure in this period of perceived crisis. The volume is unique in engaging and digesting the dramatic importance of the discoveries of the new social history, thereby resituating and revaluing Shakespeare within the social depth of politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Middle class -- Great Britain -- History
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Middle class
Political and social views
Social conditions
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Political aspects
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Political aspects
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056941
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fitter, Christopher, editor
ISBN 9780191846557
0191846554
9780192529916
0192529919