 | The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Political and social views; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History; Aesthetics -- Political aspects; Ranging from Leonardo to Hobbes, The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare argues that it is through an engagement with the problem of aesthetic autonomy that the early modern work most profoundly explores its relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty and political subjectivity. Pye Christopher : Christopher Pye is Class of 1924 Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle and The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture. |
