Book contents
- Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
- Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Sources and References
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘touching violence or punishments’:
- Chapter 2 ‘Undoing all, as all had never been’:
- Chapter 3 In the Realm of the ‘unthankful King’: Violent Subjects and Subjectivities in the Henry IV Plays
- Chapter 4 ‘Now thrive the armourers’:
- Chapter 5 ‘the childe of his great Mistris favour, but the sonne of Bellona’: The Conflict-Ridden Careers of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- Chapter 6 European Afterlives 1600–1770
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2022
Book contents
- Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
- Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Sources and References
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘touching violence or punishments’:
- Chapter 2 ‘Undoing all, as all had never been’:
- Chapter 3 In the Realm of the ‘unthankful King’: Violent Subjects and Subjectivities in the Henry IV Plays
- Chapter 4 ‘Now thrive the armourers’:
- Chapter 5 ‘the childe of his great Mistris favour, but the sonne of Bellona’: The Conflict-Ridden Careers of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- Chapter 6 European Afterlives 1600–1770
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This Introduction sets out the key emphases of the book as a whole, exploring: the evolving theoretical debate concerning violence in the early modern and modern periods; the controversies surrounding militarism in Tudor England; the theatrical undertaking of Shakespeare’s histories; and European literary responses to the late Elizabethan court.
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- Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe , pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022