Readership: Scholars and postgraduate students of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature.
Hugh Grady, Professor of English, Arcadia University
"Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakespeare and critical theory." - Choice
IntroductionHistoricism and the Cultural Present in Shakespeare Studies: Subjectivity in Early and Late Modernity 1: A Shakespeare Machiavellian Moment, 1595-1600: An Overview 2: The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne 3: Montaigne, Shakespeare, and the Construction of Modern Subjectivity 4: The Resistance to Power in 1 Henry IV: Subjectivity in the World 5: The Reified Worlds of 2 Henry IV and Henry V ConclusionHamlet and The Tragedy of the Subject Bibliography Index
