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• Richard III- A Play for our Time

  http://library.thinkquest.org/26314/

  The siteRichard 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

• 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 viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A positive spin on the character of KingHenry Vboth 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 Editionshas 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'sThe Tempest

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/cwebtemp.html

  Carey-Webb, Allen. "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare'sThe Tempest."Early Modern Literary Studies5.1 (May, 1999): 3.1-39. Approaches the schooling and teaching practices inThe Tempestin 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

• 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 Studies4.3 (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'sCoriolanusand the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State."Renaissance Forum4.2 (2000). Cefalu argues against what he considers "transitionalist and capitalist misreadings ofCoriolanus." 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