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The tears of sovereignty : perspectives of power in Renaissance drama / Philip Lorenz.
- Title
- The tears of sovereignty : perspectives of power in Renaissance drama / Philip Lorenz.
- Author
- Lorenz, Philip.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
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- Description
- xi, 379 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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{u2014}William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca{u2014}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{u2019}s conceptualization as a 2body of power.3 Each chapter is organized around a key tropological operation performed on that 2body,3 from the analogical relations invoked in Richard II, through the metaphorical transfers staged in Measure for Measure to the autoimmune resistances they produce in Lope{u2019}s Fuenteovejuna, and, finally, the allegorical returns of Calderón{u2019}s Life Is a Dream and Shakespeare{u2019}s TheWinter{u2019}s Tale. The 2tears3 of sovereignty are the exegetical tropes produced and performed on the English stages and Spanish corrales of the seventeenth century through which we continue to view sovereignty today.
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- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: The body is burning: Sovereignty, image, trope -- Breakdown: Analogy and ontotheology in Richard II -- Reanimation: The logic of transfer in Measure for measure -- Resistance: Waiting for power in Fuenteovejuna -- Transformation: The body moves out in life is a dream -- Return: The wrinkles of mystery in The winter's tale -- After-image.
- ISBN
- 9780823251308 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823251306 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012048068
- OCLC
- 812257207
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library