The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare's History Plays by Urszula Kizelbach

The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare's History Plays

Urszula Kizelbach

304 pages • paperback • 2014

2 editions

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Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli's writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who "mu...

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