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Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty

Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty

Campana, Joseph

Hardcover

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0226832538
ISBN13: 9780226832531
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 6 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own.

Politicians are fond of saying that children are the future. How did the child become a figure for our political hopes? Joseph Campana's book locates the source of this idea in transformations of childhood and political sovereignty during the age of Shakespeare, changes spectacularly dramatized by the playwright himself. Shakespeare's works feature far more child figures--and more politically entangled children--than other literary or theatrical works of the era. Campana delves into this rich corpus to show how children and childhood expose assumptions about the shape of an ideal polity, the nature of citizenship, the growing importance of population and demographics, and the question of what is or is not human. As our ability to imagine viable futures on our planet feels ever more limited, and as children take up legal proceedings to sue on behalf of the future, it behooves us to understand the way past child figures haunt our conversations about intergenerational justice. Shakespeare offers critical precedents for questions we still struggle to answer.

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