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ISBN: PB: 9780226559193

ISBN: HB: 9780226559056

University of Chicago Press

December 2018

304 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

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£21,00
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Shakespearean Territories

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In "Shakespearean Territories", Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in "King Lear", to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in "Hamlet", to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in "Richard II". Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, "Shakespearean Territories" will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

About the Author

Stuart Elden is professor of political geography at Durham University, UK, and social sciences director of Durham's Institute of Advanced Study. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, "Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty".