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Shakespeare's body parts figuring sovereignty in the history plays / Huw Griffiths.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474448727
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR3069 .S535 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Baroque Body Parts of Henry VI Part Two -- 1 Richard II as Robinson Crusoe: Sovereignty and the Impossibility of Solitude -- 2 Necks, Throats and Windpipes in Henry V: Sovereignty Translated -- 3 Prosthetic Hands in King John -- 4 Copious Sovereignty in the Henry IV Plays -- 5 'My kingdom for a horse': Bestial Sovereignty in Richard III -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject: This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Shakespeare's Body Parts -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Baroque Body Parts of Henry VI Part Two -- 1 Richard II as Robinson Crusoe: Sovereignty and the Impossibility of Solitude -- 2 Necks, Throats and Windpipes in Henry V: Sovereignty Translated -- 3 Prosthetic Hands in King John -- 4 Copious Sovereignty in the Henry IV Plays -- 5 'My kingdom for a horse': Bestial Sovereignty in Richard III -- Bibliography -- Index

This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.

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