King John in the “Vormärz”: Worrying Politics and Pathos

This article picks up on a tendency of recent criticism to look to Shakespeare for insights into contemporary politics, and extends it backwards to the period of German history known as the “Vormärz”―the period between 1815 and 1848. It establishes parallels between that period and the current debat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert Gillett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2019-06-01
Series:Multicultural Shakespeare
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/5748