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First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the expression of a political content: it played a constitutive role in forming the distinctive theory of sovereignty and the distinctive political subjectivity of the era. By reading Shakespeare's play

Politics and literature --- Political plays, English --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Sovereignty in literature. --- Renaissance --- History --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Political and social views.