"King hereafter" : Macbeth and apocalypse in the Stuart discourse of sovereignty

"King hereafter" : Macbeth and apocalypse in the Stuart discourse of sovereignty

“‘King Hereafter’” posits Shakespearean theater as a gateway between Reformation England’s suppressed desire to rid itself of monarchy and that desire’s expression in the 1649 execution of King Charles I. Specifically, I argue that Macbeth darkly manifests a latent Protestant fantasy in which the ki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foran, Gregory Augustine
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Davenant
Milton
Tenure of kings and magistrates
Samson Agonistes
Hobbes
Leviathan
Apocalypse
Sovereignty
Regicide
Political theology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-976

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