Shakespeare's Political Drama

Leggatt, Alexander

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“…While he does not explain this connection, Leggatt interprets it as an acknowledgement that kingship can never again be the sacred institution it once was. 124 The highest it can be is an office to achieve worldly glory. In these limited terms, Henry is determined to win the war and "undo the damage his father did."…”

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La ley como concepto problemático en el texto shakesperiano. análisis de los discursos sobre derecho en Ricardo II y Enrique V

Belle

2019

Novum Jus

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This paper examines two of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II and Henry V. It argues that Shakespeare attempts to counter the view that the law is a relatively stable set of principles that can be seen persisting indifferently through turbulent and peaceful times, and develops this argument in three thematic sections. It analyzes concepts of law and justice, as well and the relationship between power and political divisions among entrenched legal or constitutional principles, on the one hand, and popular politics, on the other, and demonstrates how their interaction reflects the relative instability of any political and legal system.

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La ley como concepto problemático en el texto shakesperiano. análisis de los discursos sobre derecho en Ricardo II y Enrique V

Belle

2019

Novum Jus

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“…On the contrary, he was an affluent businessman who knew how to manage people, market his talent, network with those in power, run his Globe theatre as a profit-churning enterprise. He wrote about leadership not because he had a penchant for the subject but because there was a public demand for it, At a time when the average citizen's ability to participate in public life was limited or non-existent, it was natural that instead of thinking about political structures and functions people would be more inclined to watch the pageantry of greatness, the rise and the fall of the very few who had power (Leggatt 1988).…”

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“…Richard himself is one of Shakespeare's sharpest studies of a personality. Intensifying the scrutiny of the office, he was bound, it seems, to intensify the scrutiny of the man, and to test man and office against each other (Leggatt 1988). Communications, 9, 2 (2014): 161-184 Corrigan alluding to Shakespeare's denouncement of ascription-oriented power systems states, 'His Richard II is written to appear weak and capricious, demonstrating precisely what happens in the modern world when you just depend on ascribed authority ….'…”

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Shakespeare on Leadership, Communication and Management

Bharadwaj

2014

Journal of Creative Communications

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Shakespeare has been widely recognized as a dramaturgist who through his intriguing pageantry of kings presents an effective text of leadership, communication and management that has inspired hosts of modern day business practitioners. Yet it is interesting to note that the management perspective which Shakespeare seems to espouse has emanated from the cultural ethos of his native country, Great Britain. Britain has been portrayed by prominent interculturists such as Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, Edward T. Hall as a low power distance, weak uncertainty avoidance, low-context culture with high masculinity and individualism index, demonstrating achievement and inner-directed value orientations. Even Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLOBE) study in its cultural taxonomy identifies a ramification of Anglo-cluster leadership model with a distinct skill set which includes Great Britain. The character lineaments of Shakespeare’s king leaders present congruence with the leadership profiles defined for diverse cultural demarcations by these seminal works on cross-cultural management with remarkable fidelity thereby endorsing the view that culture and leadership are inextricably woven together in a symbiotic engagement. The article applies theories of intercultural management to the leadership, communication and management inferences that can be drawn from the literature of this bard of Avon to reach the conclusion that this master craftsman evinces a strong cultural affiliation to his native country in offering his sagacious exhortations which are designed for an English audience and hence, cannot be transplanted in the Oriental part of the world without indigenizing them in the process of transposition to fit into foreign cultural constructs. Thus, in order to be globally relevant an intercultural reading of Shakespeare has to be practised with systemic mutations in his scripts in order to offer an effective transnational discourse to management practitioners keeping in view the plurality of disparate socio-cultural business contexts.

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“… 1 See also Bloom with Jaffa 1964; Hume 1873, 357–58; Johnson 1969, 61; Leggatt 1988, 30–31, 90–91; Richmond 1967, 76, 96, 106, 140, 160, 224; Wells 1986, 7, 26–28, 81–85, 152–54, 157, 165. Shakespeare refers to Machiavelli explicitly on three occasions: Henry VI, Part One (V. iv.…”

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Pious Princes and Red-Hot Lovers: The Politics of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Weinberger

2003

The Journal of Politics

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is obviously a tragedy of impetuous young love. But it is also a play about politics, especially politics as conditioned by Christian morality and religion. The play's action is determined by the conflict between secular and priestly authority, and by the complex interaction among mercy, love, and punishment as practiced by Escalus, Prince of Verona, and Friar Laurence, the Franciscan. In the course of this action, the Veronese regime is transformed, and the common good determined, in ways more compatible with the friar's interests than with those of the Prince. Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's pictures of the unique problems that determined modern, as opposed to ancient, political life.

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Shakespeare's Political Drama

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La ley como concepto problemático en el texto shakesperiano. análisis de los discursos sobre derecho en Ricardo II y Enrique V

La ley como concepto problemático en el texto shakesperiano. análisis de los discursos sobre derecho en Ricardo II y Enrique V

Shakespeare on Leadership, Communication and Management

Pious Princes and Red-Hot Lovers: The Politics of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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