Links Database:
Keyword politics
- Caesar's Reviving Blood
- http://www.leithart.com/archives/000791.php
- Leithart, Peter J. "Caesar's Reviving Blood." Leithart.com, 2004. Leithart delves into the historical background, structure, social and political issues, and conceptions of ceremony and sacrifice that exist within the play the play:
- keywords: background, caesar, ceremony, history, JC, sacrifice, structure, politics, religion
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- Hal Imitates The Sun
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-5.txt
- Schneider, Ben Ross. "Hal Imitates The Sun." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. A positive spin on the character of King Henry V both in light of and in spite of war, prisoners, religious politics, and his pursuit of Catherine:
- keywords: character, H5, henry V, king, politics
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry V
- valid as of 2005-09-08
ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times- http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/index.html
- The Internet Shakespeare Editions has an extensive site on Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance context of the stage, society, politics, the history of ideas, and the literature of the time:
- keywords: history, life, politics, renaissance, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/cwebtemp.html
- Carey-Webb, Allen. "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May, 1999): 3.1-39. Approaches the schooling and teaching practices in The Tempest in terms of sixteenth-century politics and colonial discourses:
- keywords: colonial, discourse, education, history, national, politics, sixteenth, teaching, Tmp, tempest
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-08

Richard III - A Play for our Time- http://library.thinkquest.org/26314/
- The site Richard III, A Play for Our Time - from Think Quest - provides historical, political, and psychological perspectives on the play and its central character:
- keywords: history, richard, r3, politics
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare and the Politics of Community
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/wardshak.html
- Ward, Ian. "Shakespeare and the Politics of Community." Early Modern Literary Studies 4.3 (January 1999): 2.1-45. Ward investigates the idea of narrative community and suggests its import for contemporary legal and political theory:
- keywords: community, politics, law, identity
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- The End of Absolutism
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm
- Cefalu, Paul. "'The End of Absolutism': Shakespeare's Coriolanus and the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State." Renaissance Forum 4.2 (2000). Cefalu argues against what he considers "transitionalist and capitalist misreadings of Coriolanus." He attempts to reinterpret the play based on recent historical work on the nature of the Tudor-Stuart state:
- keywords: coriolanus, state, government, class, politics, capitalism, tudor, jacobean
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Coriolanus
- valid as of 2007-01-10
- William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism
- http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5D/C.Harris.html
- Harris, Colin. "'Polite Conversation': Performance, Politics, and National Unity in William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism." Prometheus Unplugged, 1996. A discussion of Hazlitt's part in the transformation of theater and Shakespearean criticism by Romantic ideas:
- keywords: criticism, performance, politics, theater, theatre, william
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07