Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

by Leonard Tennenhouse

This study of Shakespeare pursues the thesis that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre "staged displays which created political literacy...the stage was a place for disseminating an iconography of state."

Genres: Shakespeare

250 pages, Paperback

First published October 2, 1986

Reviews

[Emma Dakers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely an interesting read though I feel it gave an incredibly flat reading of Antony and Cleopatra. Proved useful to include in an essay on Orientalism as I argued against his reading.