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Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life

By Julia Reinhard Lupton

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780226711034
DOI
10.7208/9780226711034
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1692967 bytes)
Pages
312\312
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 05:20:29

Description

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodgesShakespeare’s plays from their historical confines to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchio’s animals and Kate’s laundry to Hamlet’s friends and Caliban’s childhood, Lupton restages thinking in Shakespeare as an embodied act of consent, cure, and care. Thinking with Shakespeare encourages readers to ponder matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side. Taking her cue from Hannah Arendt, Lupton reads Shakespeare for fresh insights into everything from housekeeping and animal husbandry to biopower and political theology.

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