The Politics of Shakespeare

The Politics of Shakespeare is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent individuals and collectivities of the plays. It examines the ideological apparatuses which produce and naturalise oppression as well as those political structures by which oppression is sustained. Derek Cohen is concerned to demonstrate the many ways in which political and personal life, always interdependent, intersect, contradict, and disrupt one another, often in the interests of the dominant social ideology.