How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays

Peter Lake

688 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England   With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, S...

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