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GREAT THINKERS Shakespeare and Politics

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Commentary

Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man

Carson Holloway, “Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man,” Review of Politics 69 (2007): 353-74

The Ground of Nature: Shakespeare, Language, and Politics

Paul A. Cantor, “The Ground of Nature: Shakespeare, Language, and Politics,” St. John’s Review, Summer 1983, 19-24

The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Jan H. Blits, The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003)

The Famous Victories of William Shakespeare: The Life of Henry the Fifth

Pamela K. Jensen, “The Famous Victories of William Shakespeare: The Life of Henry the Fifth,” in Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens: Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics, eds. Joseph M. Knippenberg and Peter Augustus Lawler (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 235-69

Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning

Norman Rabkin, Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)

The Great Eclipse: Tragic Form as Deconsecration of Sovereignty

Franco Moretti, “The Great Eclipse: Tragic Form as Deconsecration of Sovereignty,” Signs Taken For Wonders (London: Verso, 1983), 42-82

Shakespeare and the Early Modern Self

Mark Edmundson, “Shakespeare and the Early Modern Self,” Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), 137-84

Shakespeare and Republicanism

Andrew Hadfield, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (New York: Zone, 1988)

Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicist Vision

Paul A. Cantor, “Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicist Vision,” Academic Questions, Fall 1993, 21-36.

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