Sovereign amity:figures of friendship in Shakespearean contexts
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago |
Publication Dates: | 2002. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 240 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0226749665 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226749673 (paper : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I561 |
CLC: | I561.073 |
Call Number: | I561.073/S528 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index. Prologue: "soveraigne mistris amitie" -- The early modern politics of likeness: sovereign reader/subjects and listening kings -- Chaste associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: sexual mixtures, same-sex friendship, and the genders of integrity -- Professing friendship: erotic prerogatives and "human title" in The two noble kinsmen -- Ungoverned states: Friendship, mignonnerie, and the private monarch -- The false prince and the true subject: friendship and public institutions in Edward II and The Henriad -- Friendship's offices: true speech and artificial bodies in The winter's tale -- Epilogue: Magna civitas; Magna solitudo: bureaucratic forms and civic conditions. |