商品簡介
Some might say that virtually everything Shakespeare wrote is political, and this collection of seven articles certainly stands as clear evidence. With the idea that politics is really about people and some of their strongest emotions despite the field's quick march into methodological alienation, Murley and Sutton (both political science, Rochester Institute of Technology) and their contributors take an interdisciplinary approach as they reflect on leadership, statesmanship, citizenship and marginality. They open with a retrospective look into the close relationship between poetry and politics and proceed to the transition into modernity in Henry V, the idea of liberty in the plays set in Britain, the domestic politics underlying the comedies, social commentary in As You Like It, leadership and theory in Measure for Measure, the tensions between the classical and the Christian world view in Troilus and Cressida, and the very real and often deadly politics of Shakespeare's own times. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
John A. Murley is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Sean D. Sutton is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.