Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body

Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and surviv

Introduction: The Image of the Body Politic	p. 1
The Body Politic, Its Unruly Members, and the Generation of Disorder in Richard II	p. 13
The Body Politic, Its Political Faculties, and the Restoration of Order in 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V	p. 43
Faculties of the Body Politic: Caesar, Cassius, Brutus, and Mark Antony	p. 75
Body Part, Not Body Politic: Hamlet	p. 109
Playing Politics: The Theater as Epistemological Faculty in the Body Politic	p. 129
Works Cited	p. 159
Index	p. 173
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