{"product_id":"the-third-citizen-oliver-arnold-9780801885044","title":"The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe new practices and theories of parliamentary representation that emerged during Elizabeth's and James' reigns shattered the unity of human agency, redefined the nature of power, transformed the image of the body politic, and unsettled constructs and concepts as fundamental as the relation between presence and absence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Third Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e, Oliver Arnold argues that recovering the formation of political representation as an effective ideology should radically change our understanding of early modern political culture, Shakespeare's political art, and the way Anglo-American critics, for whom representative democracy is second nature, construe both. In magisterial readings of \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e, and the First Tetralogy, Arnold discovers a new Shakespeare who was neither a conservative apologist for monarchy nor a prescient, liberal champion of the House of Commons but instead a radical thinker and artist who demystified the ideology of political representation in the moment of its first flowering. Shakespeare believed that political representation produced (and required for its reproduction) a new kind of subject and a new kind of subjectivity, and he fashioned a new kind of tragedy to represent the loss of power, the fall from dignity, the false consciousness, and the grief peculiar to the experiences of representing and of being represented. Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Arnold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801885043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801885044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.43h x 9.16w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 258","brand":"Oliver Arnold","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086872523007,"sku":"9780801885044","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df84f6fa-349c-414d-b4d0-843c90e588bd.jpg?v=1769097070","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-third-citizen-oliver-arnold-9780801885044","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}