This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple Body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare\'s History plays, including Henry V, Richard III, Richard II, King John and Henry IV.
With a starting point in literary critical analyses of these dislocated bodies, the book tracks Shakespeare\'s relentless pursuit of a specific political question: how does human flesh, blood and bone relate to sovereignty? Griffiths advances our understanding of how human bodies are cap.
This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple Body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare\'s History plays, including Henry V, Richard III, Richard II, King John and Henry IV