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Tears of Sovereignty Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama

Lorenz Philip
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780823251308
Publisert
2013-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
392

Forfatter
Lorenz Philip

Biographical note

Philip Lorenz is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

Tears of Sovereignty Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama

Lorenz Philip
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Lorenz Philip
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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Lorenz masterfully interweaves philosophical, political, sociological, and historical perspectives into his readings of these diverse plays . . .Recommended

—Choice Magazine

“. . . a highly theorized account of a set of mesmerizing problem plays from Spanish and English theater,which generate a range of insightful new accounts of the operation of the tropes of metaphor, analogy, and allegory in relation to the theatrical image, the Eucharist, and the insignia of power.”<b>---—Julia Reinhard Lupton, <i>author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life</i></b>

In his first book, 'Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama, Philip Lorenz addresses Spain through inventive political-theological readings of the Jesuit theologian Francisco Suarez and Lope de Vega's 'Life Is a Dream'. The emphasis on Suarez is fresh and urgent, inviting us to think the Catholic question in a counter-reformation and Baroque rather than medieval/archaic frame, and to do so through a substantial, fascination, and under-examined body of texts.

—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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“Tears of Sovereignty is a smart, philosophically textured analysis of sovereignty on the seventeenth-century stage.”<b>---—Graham Hammill, <i>University at Buffalo, SUNY</i></b>

A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period—William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca—reconstitute the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to conceive the problems of sovereignty. The book focuses in particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform sovereignty’s conceptualization as a “body of power.” Each chapter is organized around a key tropological operation performed on that “body,” from the analogical relations invoked in Richard II, through the metaphorical transfers staged in Measure for Measure to the autoimmune resistances they produce in Lope’s Fuenteovejuna, and, finally, the allegorical returns of Calderón’s Life Is a Dream and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The “tears” of sovereignty are the exegetical tropes produced and performed on the English stages and Spanish corrales of the seventeenth century through which we continue to view sovereignty today.
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The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today.
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Argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today

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Lorenz masterfully interweaves philosophical, political, sociological, and historical perspectives into his readings of these diverse plays . . .Recommended

—Choice Magazine

“. . . a highly theorized account of a set of mesmerizing problem plays from Spanish and English theater,which generate a range of insightful new accounts of the operation of the tropes of metaphor, analogy, and allegory in relation to the theatrical image, the Eucharist, and the insignia of power.”<b>---—Julia Reinhard Lupton, <i>author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life</i></b>

In his first book, 'Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama, Philip Lorenz addresses Spain through inventive political-theological readings of the Jesuit theologian Francisco Suarez and Lope de Vega's 'Life Is a Dream'. The emphasis on Suarez is fresh and urgent, inviting us to think the Catholic question in a counter-reformation and Baroque rather than medieval/archaic frame, and to do so through a substantial, fascination, and under-examined body of texts.

—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Se alle

“Tears of Sovereignty is a smart, philosophically textured analysis of sovereignty on the seventeenth-century stage.”<b>---—Graham Hammill, <i>University at Buffalo, SUNY</i></b>

A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period—William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca—reconstitute the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to conceive the problems of sovereignty. The book focuses in particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform sovereignty’s conceptualization as a “body of power.” Each chapter is organized around a key tropological operation performed on that “body,” from the analogical relations invoked in Richard II, through the metaphorical transfers staged in Measure for Measure to the autoimmune resistances they produce in Lope’s Fuenteovejuna, and, finally, the allegorical returns of Calderón’s Life Is a Dream and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The “tears” of sovereignty are the exegetical tropes produced and performed on the English stages and Spanish corrales of the seventeenth century through which we continue to view sovereignty today.
Les mer
The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today.
Les mer
Argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780823251308
Publisert
2013-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
392

Forfatter
Lorenz Philip

Biographical note

Philip Lorenz is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

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