Shakespeare's freedom
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes, of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. The author shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Again and again, Shakespeare confounds the designs and pretensions of kings, generals, and churchmen. His aversion to absolutes even leads him to probe the exalted and seemingly limitless passions of his lovers. The author explores this rich theme by addressing four of Shakespeare's preoccupations across all the genres in which he worked
Print Book, English, ©2010
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2010
Nonfiction
xiii, 144 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
9780226306667, 9780226306674, 0226306666, 0226306674
587209553
Absolute limits
Shakespearean beauty marks
The limits of hatred
Shakespeare and the ethics of authority
Shakespearean autonomy
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