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Richard Wilson discusses “‘The lean, unwashed articer’: Shakespeare’s Missing Magna Carta”. Wilson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston U...
Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics
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The “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s society comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority.
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