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Shakespeare's Political Drama : The History Plays and the Roman Plays, Paperback / softback Book

Shakespeare's Political Drama : The History Plays and the Roman Plays Paperback / softback

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There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare.

Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power.

Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships.

In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories.

He sees Shakespeare as concerned both with things as they are, and with things as they ought to be: his depiction of public life includes clear appraisals of the one, and powerful images of the other.

It is the interplay of the two that makes the drama.

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