TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Constance
AU  - Jordan,Constance
TI  - Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances 
SN  - 9781501744433
U1  - 822.3/3 21
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Kings and rulers in literature
KW  - Monarchy in literature
KW  - Political plays, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Tragicomedy
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Medieval & Renaissance Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Shakespeare's Romances and Jacobean Political Thought --; Chapter 2. Pericles --; Chapter 3. Cymbeline --; Chapter 4. The Winter's Tale --; Chapter 5. The Tempest, i --; Chapter 7. The Tempest, ii --; Afterword --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his romances, contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan reveals Shakespeare's investment in the idea that a head of state should be responsive to law, and not be governed by his unbridled will. Conflicts within royal courts which occur in the romances show wives, daughters, and servants resisting tyrannical husbands, fathers, masters, and monarchs by relying on the authority of conscience. These loyal subjects demonstrated to Shakespeare's diverse audiences that the vitality of the body politic, its dynastic future, and its material productivity depend on a cooperative union of ruler and subject. Drawing on representations of servitude and slavery in the humanist and political literature of the period, Jordan shows that Shakespeare's abusive rulers suffer as much as they impose on their subjects. Shakespeare's Monarchies recognizes the romances as politically inflected texts and confirms Shakespeare's involvement in the public discourse of the period
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744433
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501744433
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501744433/original
ER  -