It's a Deal, Dogboy by Christine Mcdonnell

It's a Deal, Dogboy by Christine Mcdonnell

The new practices and theories of parliamentary representation that emerged during Elizabeth's and James' reigns shattered the unity of human agency, redefined the nature of power, transformed the image of the body politic, and unsettled constructs and concepts as fundamental as the relation between presence and absence.

In The Third Citizen, Oliver Arnold argues that recovering the formation of political representation as an effective ideology should radically change our understanding of early modern political culture, Shakespeare's political art, and the way Anglo-American critics, for whom representative democracy is second nature, construe both. In magisterial readings of Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and the First Tetralogy, Arnold discovers a new Shakespeare who was neither a conservative apologist for monarchy nor a prescient, liberal champion of the House of Commons but instead a radical thinker and artist who demystified the ideology of political representation in the moment of its first flowering. Shakespeare believed that political representation produced (and required for its reproduction) a new kind of subject and a new kind of subjectivity, and he fashioned a new kind of tragedy to represent the loss of power, the fall from dignity, the false consciousness, and the grief peculiar to the experiences of representing and of being represented. Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.

--Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University English Studies

Christine McDonnell, a children's librarian and the author of many books for children, lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Jeff Mack (www.jeffmack.com) has written and illustrated more than a dozen books for children, including Frog and Fly and Hush Little Polar Bear. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780670832644
ISBN 10	0670832642
Title	It's a Deal, Dogboy
Author	Christine Mcdonnell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1998-09-24
Number of pages	92
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.