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Shakespeare's monarchies : ruler and subject in the romances

Argues that the romances of Shakespeare contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan shows Shakespeare's belief that heads of state should be responsive to law.
Print Book, English, 1999
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1999
X, 224 p. ; 23 cm.
9780801486296, 0801486297
1047912943