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Shakespearean genealogies of power [electronic resource] : a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale / Anselm Haverkamp.

By: Haverkamp, Anselm.
Series: Discourses of law: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 176 p.).ISBN: 9780203840283 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Law | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- History | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views | Law in literature | Politics in literature | Law -- Political aspects | Power (Social sciences) in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No title; No title; No titleDDC classification: 822.33 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Introduction -- Perpetuum mobile: Shakespeare's perpetual Renaissance -- The ghost of history: Hamlet's politics of paternity -- Lethe's wharf: wild justice, the purgatorial supplement -- Richard II, Bracton, and the end of political theology -- The death of a shifter: Jupiterian history in Julius Caesar -- The future of violence: Macbeth and Machiavelli -- The whispering of nothing: The winter's tale -- But mercy is above: Shylock's pun of a pound -- Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-167) and index.

Introduction -- Perpetuum mobile: Shakespeare's perpetual Renaissance -- The ghost of history: Hamlet's politics of paternity -- Lethe's wharf: wild justice, the purgatorial supplement -- Richard II, Bracton, and the end of political theology -- The death of a shifter: Jupiterian history in Julius Caesar -- The future of violence: Macbeth and Machiavelli -- The whispering of nothing: The winter's tale -- But mercy is above: Shylock's pun of a pound -- Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.