The essay analyses the historical conditions and the constitutional order that characterized the reign of James I to build a comparison between them and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote during the late Elizabethan and the Jacobean period. The Bard’s historical dramas stage the passage from a «descendant» model of sovereignty to an «ascendant» model, but every play offers multiple keys of interpretation and a multi-layered structure, combining literature with the political and legal concepts of sovereignty and legitimacy.
Constitutional and historical vicissitudes of the Reign of James I as a multi-layered Shakespearean drama
Silvia Filippi
2019
Abstract
The essay analyses the historical conditions and the constitutional order that characterized the reign of James I to build a comparison between them and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote during the late Elizabethan and the Jacobean period. The Bard’s historical dramas stage the passage from a «descendant» model of sovereignty to an «ascendant» model, but every play offers multiple keys of interpretation and a multi-layered structure, combining literature with the political and legal concepts of sovereignty and legitimacy.File in questo prodotto:
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