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Shakespeare and the dramaturgy of power
Scholarly study linking medieval religious drama to Shakespeare’s skeptical treatment of political power and social privilege.
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Scholarly study linking medieval religious drama to Shakespeare’s skeptical treatment of political power and social privilege.
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Through a revised study of Shakespeare's dramatic heritage in its social context, the author questions the idealizing view that Shakespearean drama enacts an 'Elizabethan world picture' as well as the materialist view that the plays laid the foundation for modern radical ideology. Instead the author locates Shakespeare's skepticism about power in his heritage from medieval religious drama. Always responsive to the taste of the ruling class, Shakespeare, according to Cox, nonetheless repeatedly c...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Analytical references to political violence in the plays discussed
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Substance use
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Religious content
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Medieval Christian drama and Augustinian theology central to the thesis
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central analysis of power, social privilege, and ruling-class assumptions
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses human suffering and injustice under worldly power
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