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Thinking With Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
出版社： The University of Chicago Press
書林書號：
30186576
作者：
Lupton, Julia Reinhard
定價：
1575
會員價：
$1496
ISBN：
9780226496719
出版年份：
2011
裝訂：
精裝
總頁數：
0
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What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? What are their rights? To whom are they obligated? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has been obscured by historicist approaches to literature.

Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodges  Shakespeare’s plays from their historical confines in order to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchio’s animals and Kate’s laundry to Hamlet’s friends and Caliban’s childhood, Lupton here restages thinking in Shakespeare as an embodied act of consent, cure, and care. Rather than putting the plays in service of an ideological program, Thinking with Shakespeare encourages readers to ponder  matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side. In a landscape populated by she-doctors, minor monsters, bankrupted hosts, and faithful cupbearers, Shakespeare tests what it means to consider our humanity fully. Taking her cue from Hannah Arendt, Lupton reads Shakespeare for fresh insights into everything from housekeeping and animal husbandry to biopower and political theology.
Julia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or coauthor of several books, most recently Citizen–Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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