Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage

by Richard Wilson and Richard Wilson

Book Overview

Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage is a study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political. Starting from the dramatist's cringing relations with his princely patrons, Richard Wilson considers the ways in which this 'bending author' identifies freedom in failure and power in weakness by staging the endgames of a sovereignty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719091799
• ISBN13: 9780719091797
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"