Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne Power

The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.

Introduction: Historicism and the Cultural Present in Shakespeare Studies: Subjectivity in Early and Late Modernity

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A Shakespearian `Machiavellian Moment', 1595--1600: An Overview

26

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The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne

58

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The Machiavellian World of Richard II

58

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Modern Subjectivity in Richard II

82

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Montaigne, Shakespeare, and the Construction of Modern Subjectivity

109

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The Resistance to Power in 1 Henry IV: Subjectivity in the World

126

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From Richard and Bolingbroke to Hal and Falstaff

126

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Subjectivity, Carnival, and the Aesthetic: Falstaff in 1 Henry IV

143

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The Prince's Self: Between Machiavelli and Montaigne

162

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Audience, Ideology, and the Utopian in 1 Henry IV

174

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The Reified Worlds of 2 Henry IV and Henry V

180

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The Commodification of Subjectivity in 2 Henry IV

180

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Dissonance and Dissidence in Henry V

204

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Conclusion: Hamlet and the Tragedy of the Subject

243

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Bibliography

266

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Index

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