The Politics of Shakespeare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 1-6

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8

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   2. Othello’s Suicide

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 9-22

   3. The Question of Shylock

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 23-37

   4. Caliban’s Body

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 38-52

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-54

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   2. Shakespeare’s Poor: 2 Henry VI

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 55-72

   3. To Have Not: King Lear and Money

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 73-88

   4. The Politics of Wealth: Timon of Athens

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 89-104

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-107

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   2. Measure for Measure and Liberalism

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 107-123

   3. The Madding of Malvolio

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 124-137

   4. Sexual Rage in Othello and The Winter’s Tale

      • Derek Cohen

      Pages 138-154

6. Back Matter

   Pages 155-156

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This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent individuals and collectivities constructed in the plays. It examines the ideological apparatuses which produce and naturalise oppression and the political structures through which that oppression is sustained. Derek Cohen is concerned to demonstrate the many ways in which political and personal life, always interdependent, intersect. contradict, and disrupt one another often in the interests of and to the advantage of the dominant social ideology.

• King Lear
• Shakespearean drama
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• York University, Ontario, Canada

  Derek Cohen

DEREK COHEN

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