The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama

by Philip Lorenz

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A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period--William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calder n de la Barca--reconstitute the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to conceive the problems of sovereignty.

The book focuses in particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform sovereignty's conceptualization...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823251306

ISBN13:9780823251308

Release Date:July 2013

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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