How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays

by Peter Lake

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England

With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300222718
• ISBN13: 9780300222715
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.4"