The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama

by Philip Lorenz

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--William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calder n de la Barca--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's conceptualization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251306
• ISBN13: 9780823251308
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"