This groundbreaking work, first published in 2005, reveals exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critica

This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare's writing.

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed

Political science is becoming ever more reliant on abstract statistical models and almost divorced from human judgment, hope, and idealism. William Shakespeare

This book develops an original approach to theories of political power and seeks to show the particular value of examining these issues through the frame of Sha