Palgrave Shakespeare Studies: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh

Gil, D.

Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349445981

DOI: 10.1057/9781137275011

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 167