
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
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Inhalt
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction and acknowledgements
- PART I Contexts and structures
- Back to the future: Catholics and protestants learn the lessons of history
- Putting the (high) politics back into 'power'
- Elizabethan political history, now
- The arts of history
- Putting history on the stage
- History and the 'now' of performance
- Getting the audience to do the work
- Plays and pamphlets, pamphlets and plays
- PART II Past into present and future: 2 and 3 Henry VI and the politics of lost legitimacy
- CHAPTER 1 Losing legitimacy: monarchical weakness andthe descent into disorder
- The politics of faction anatomised
- The 'good duke' (of Gloucester)
- Good counsellor/evil counsellor
- True tragedy: the fall of Gloucester
- Monarchical rule as the enabling condition of good counsel
- CHAPTER 2 Disorder dissected (i): the inversion of the gender order
- Disorderly wives and witches
- Women on top: the resistible rise of Queen Margaret
- The 'Amazonian trull'
- Not clerical but lay: the cross-dressing Henry VI
- Beyond evil counsel: the Christian prince as oxymoron
- CHAPTER 3 Disorder dissected (ii): the inversion of the social order
- 'We are in order when we are most out of order'
- Puritan popularity personified
- A mirror for (dysfunctional) magistrates?
- CHAPTER 4 Hereditary 'right' and political legitimacy anatomised
- The right to rule unravelled
- A monarchical republic (not)
- When honour becomes revenge
- From Lancaster to Tudor
- PART III Happy endings and alternative outcomes: 1 Henry VI and Richard III
- CHAPTER 5 How not to go there: 1 Henry VI as prequel and alternative ending
- Faction politics
- Succession politics
- The politics of virtue
- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again
- Anti-popery
- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war
- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means
- The making of a Machiavel
- Monstrous bodies and providential signs
- Signs and prophecies
- The audience as 'high all- seer'
- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel'
- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy
- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future
- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared
- PART IV How (not) to depose a tyrant: King John and Richard II
- CHAPTER 8 The Elizabethan resonances of the reign of King John
- Catholic and protestant appropriations of King John
- The Holinshed account
- CHAPTER 9 The first time as polemic, the second time as play: Shakespeare's King John and The troublesome reign
- Legitimacy problematised
- The bastard
- Commodity
- Popery in The troublesome reign
- Popery and the descent into tyranny in King John
- The apotheosis of the bastard
- England and providence
- CHAPTER 10 Richard II, or the rights and wrongs of resistance
- Tyranny anatomised
- Tyranny outed
- The fallacies of sacred kingship
- From the reformation of the kingdom to rebellion, usurpation and regicide
- The political theatre of usurpation and the paradoxes of loyalism
- Prophecy or prognostication?
- Beyond evil counsel
- CHAPTER 11 Shakespeare and Parsons - again
- (Not) a parliament scene
- The dynastic consequences of the politics of prophecy
- A politique politics?
- The bastard and Bolingbroke compared
- Part V The Essexian circle squared, or a user's guide to the politics of popularity, honour and legitimacy
- CHAPTER 12 The loss of legitimacy and the politics of commodity dissected
- Usurpation and its consequences
- The public politics of insurrection
- Rebellion from the inside out
- Honour
- The politics of commodity and the language of the market
- Lancastrians and Tudors
- The politics of memory
- The politics of religion and prophecy
- CHAPTER 13 Learning to be a bastard: Hal's second (plebeian) nature
- The pleasures and perils of 'popularity'
- CHAPTER 14 Festive Falstaff: of popularity, puritans and princes
- Antipuritanism - again
- Misrule stops being festive
- Legitimising the bastard: Hal becomes Henry
- CHAPTER 15 Henry V and the fruits of legitimacy
- Back to 'normal'?
- Legitimacy as an achieved effect
- A just war and a Christian prince?
- Perils of popularity tamed and enticements of honour resisted
- A Machiavel for good: can even the best of princes get to heaven?
- Peace, war and the politics of the succession
- Essex - again
- PART VI Using plays to read plays: the court politics of the dramatic riposte
- CHAPTER 16 Contemporary readings: Oldcastle/Falstaff, Cobham/Essex
- Oldcastle/Falstaff, Cobham/Essex
- Getting him coming and going (i): The merry wives of Windsor
- Getting him going and coming (ii): Falstaff/Oldcastle as Cobham
- Shaming rituals and court masques
- A happy ending
- Political contingencies
- CHAPTER 17 Oldcastle redivivus
- A clerical Falstaff
- A clerical conspiracy
- Episcopal tyranny
- Oldcastle as the epitome of perfect protestant loyalty
- Getting it right
- Getting it wrong
- Loyal Lollards and moderate puritans
- The godly and their episcopal enemies
- Essex - again
- PART VII Julius Caesar: the dangers of playingp agan and republican politics in a Christian monarchy
- CHAPTER 18 The state we're in
- CHAPTER 19 The politics of honour (in a popular state)
- Republican honour
- Emulation and the production and maintenance of republican virtue
- CHAPTER 20 Performing honour and the politics of popularity (in a popular state)
- The politics of honour and the people
- CHAPTER 21 The politics of popularity and faction (in a popular state)
- Learning to tell the time: universalising scepticism versus historicising relativism
- CHAPTER 22 The politics of prodigy, prophecy and providence (in a pagan state)
- CHAPTER 23 Between Henry V and Hamlet
- PART VIII Disillusion: Christian and pagan style
- CHAPTER 24 Hamlet
- Essex - again
- The purpose of playing
- CHAPTER 25 The morning after the night before: Troilus and Cressida as retrospect
- 'Fluellenism' revisited
- Market value
- The case for war (and peace)
- Faction and fraction
- The politics of fame and the decay of honour
- Bad Essex/good Essex
- 'War for a placket': the paradoxes of female rule - again
- Conclusion
- The history play and the post- reformation public sphere
- Plays and politics
- Prudence and providence
- 'Religion' into 'politics' doesn't go
- Notes
- Index
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