Research Catalog
Shakespearean territories
- Title
- Shakespearean territories / Stuart Elden.
- Author
- Elden, Stuart, 1971-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- viii, 338 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Themes, motives
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- 1500-1699
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- Geography in literature
- Geopolitics in literature
- English drama
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
- Themes, motives
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Divided territory: the geo-politics of King Lear -- Vulnerable territories: regional geopolitics in Hamlet and Macbeth -- The territories: majesty and possession in King John -- Economic territories: laws, economies, agriculture, and banishment in Richard II -- Legal territories: conquest and contest in Henry V and Edward III -- Colonial territories: from The Tempest to the Eastern Mediterranean -- Measuring territories: the techniques of rule -- Corporeal territories: the political bodies of Coriolanus -- Outside territory: the forest in Titus Andronicus and As You Like It -- Coda: Beyond pale territories.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4048
- ISBN
- 9780226559056
- 022655905X
- 9780226559193
- 022655919X
- 9780226559223 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018004669
- OCLC
- 1022977158
- Author
- Elden, Stuart, 1971- author.
- Title
- Shakespearean territories / Stuart Elden.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780226559223
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4048