Republicanism in Shakespeare
Republicanism in Shakespeare
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Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2017
Pages: 364
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
Republicanism is an unmistakable principle of human organized living in the modern period. The word is the defining concept, too, of egalitarian living-it means all those positive things associated with socialist visualization and governance in a broader sense. Who would deny that effective governance finds in republicanism a caring friend and an imperative ideological need”
The phenomenon of republicanism began in a concrete sense in Tudor England; it was born out of the increasing economic strength of the merchant-trader section that was used by monarchs in their fight with the nobility. That common masses were drawn into the larger social happening is well known and explains why Shakespeare in the closing years of the sixteenth century offers space to them in play after play.
The essays selected for publication in this volume were presented as research papers by scholars at the International Conference organized jointly by the English Department, University of Jammu and The Shakespeare Association, India, in October 2013. A wide spectrum of issues concerning republicanism was discussed and debated in the Conference.
Target Audience:
Students and professors of English and Shakespearean studies.
Contents:
Foreword • Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction - Anand Prakash
Chapter 2: The Republic in Shakespeare: An Overview - Bhim S. Dohiya
Chapter 3: No King of England If Not Prince of Wales: Shakespeare, the Brutus Myth and the Basis of Monarchic Authority - Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 4: A World of Little People: Shakespeare's Republican Characterization in the History Plays -
R.S. White
Chapter 5: The Beginnings of Parliamentary Democracy in Tudor England as Refracted in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, the Four Plays of the First Tetralogy (Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, 3, Richard III), and Hamlet -R.W. Desai
Chapter 6: Lord of the Island: Comparing Allegories of Secular and Spiritual Government: Prospero and
St. Brendan (A Note) - Rita Severi
Chapter 7: Fear, Loathing, and Nationalism on Shakespeare's Stage - Paul Budra
Chapter 8: Shakespeare's Republic - S.L. Paul
Chapter 9: The Private is Political: Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece - Carina Sulzer
Chapter 10: The Impact of Utopia on Shakespeare's Comedies - Raj N. Bakshi
Chapter 11: Reflections of Plato's The Republic in Shakespeare's Roman Plays - A.K. Sharma
Chapter 12: The Roman Republic in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Coriolanus - Hema Dahiya
Chapter 13: ”Courtship” of the Commonwealth: A View of and Richard II - Payal Nagpal
Chapter 14: Conflict of the “Orders” in Coriolanus - S.P.S. Dahiya
Chapter 15: The Theme of the Republic in Richard II - Monika Sethi
Chapter 16: Cleopatra and the Roman Republic: Some Reflections on the Nature of Love and Politics in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra - Preeti Singh
Chapter 17: Mapping the Republican Spirit: A Reading of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece - Seema Malik
Chapter 18: Republican Thought in Shakespeare's Plays: A View - Anand Prakash
About the Contributors • Index
About the Editors:
Anand Prakash, Ph.D., has written extensively on literary theory and cultural-aesthetic trends. His publications include Marxist Literary Theory and Wuthering Heights: An Interpretation. Books edited by him include Nineteenth Century Thought; as well as Approaches in Literary Theory: Marxism, and Modern Indian Thought. He translated Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel into Hindi under the title Upanyas Ka Siddhani (1981). Anand Prakash's book of criticism on Hindi short fiction titled Hindi Kahani Ki Vikas Prakriya was published in 1996. Two of his recently published books of criticism in Hindi are Samkaleen Kavita: Prashna Aur ligyasayen, and (ed.) Yatharthvad Aur Janvad. His recent book containing analysis of committed poetry titled Muktibodh In Our Time came out in 2012. He edits Journal of Drama Studies: An International Journal of Research on World Drama in English [including translation], and the Hindi journal Yug Paribodh. Another journal titled Journal of Literature Studies edited by him was launched early this year.
Hema Dahiya did her Masters in English from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1998 and Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam, UK in 2011. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of English in Motilal Nehru College (Evening), University of Delhi and has earned reputation as an analyst of literary trends, particularly in Elizabethan England and nineteenth century India. Her publications include Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal: The Early Phase(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), in addition to numerous research papers, articles and reviews covering a wide range of subjects from plays of Shakespeare through Derozio's poetry to Bhisham Sahni's Tamas in international and national journals as well as edited volumes.
Contributors:
Bhim S. Dahiya • Lisa Hopkins • R.S. White • R.W. Desai • Rita Severi • Paul Budra • S.L. Paul • Carina Sulzer • R.N. Bakshi • A.K. Sharma • Hema Dahiya • Payal Nagpal • S.P”S. Dahiya • Monika Sethi • Preeti Singh • Seema Malik • Anand Prakash
