{"product_id":"shakespeares-body-parts-by-huw-griffiths-9781474448710","title":"Shakespeare's Body Parts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare's history plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresents a sustained, formalist reading of Shakespeare's history plays. Reads Shakespeare's history plays for their contribution to political thought, and to theories of sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDelivers a thorough and wide-ranging formal analysis of Shakespearean body parts, both literal and figurative. Presents a particular view of Shakespeare's language-use as \"baroque\", its convolutions contributing to complex articulations of sovereign will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCapitalises on current theories of authorship in relation to the history plays in order to assess Shakespeare's particular contribution to how sovereignty is imagined in the late sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays, including \u003ci\u003eHenry V, Richard III, Richard II, King John\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e. With a starting point in literary critical analyses of these dislocated bodies, the book tracks Shakespeare's relentless pursuit of a specific political question: how does human flesh, blood and bone relate to sovereignty?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGriffiths advances our understanding of how human bodies are captured by - and escape - the grip of political systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558998425836,"sku":"9781474448710","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781474448710-shakespeare-s-body-parts.jpg?v=1776926163","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/shakespeares-body-parts-by-huw-griffiths-9781474448710","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}