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• ISBN 10: 0192529927
• ISBN 13: 9780192529923
• Author: Chris Fitter

Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners is a highly original contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. It breaks important new ground in introducing readers, lay and scholarly alike, to the existence and character of the political culture of the mass of ordinary commoners in Shakespeare’s England, as revealed by the recent findings of ‘the new social history’. The volume thereby helps to challenge the traditional myths of a non-political commons and a culture of obedience. It also brings together leading Shakespeareans, who digest recent social history, with eminent early modern social historians, who turn their focus on Shakespeare. This genuinely cross-disciplinary approach generates fresh readings of over ten of Shakespeare’s plays and locates the impress on Shakespearean drama of popular political thought and pressure in this period of perceived crisis. The volume is unique in engaging and digesting the dramatic importance of the discoveries of the new social history, thereby resituating and revaluing Shakespeare within the social depth of politics.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depth of Politics

2. The Paradoxes of ‘Popularity’ in Shakespeare’s History Plays

3. Shakespeare’s Commonwealth

4. Brave Minds and Hard Hands: Work, Drama, and Social Relations in the Hungry 1590s

5. The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III: Hidden and Public Transcripts

6. The Plebeians Revise the Uprising: What the Actors Made of Shakespeare’s Jack Cade—Or, Laughing with the English Radical Tradition

7. Shakespeare and the ‘Military Revolution’: The Cultural and Social Weapons of Reformed War

8. Popularity and the Art of Rhetoric: Julius Caesar in Context

9. Rehearsing the Plebeians: Coriolanus and the Reading of Roman History

10. ‘As Full of Grief as Age’: Protesting against the Poor Law in King Lear

11. Experiences of Authority in The Tempest

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