Table of Contents

IntroductionHistoricism and the Cultural Present in Shakespeare Studies: Subjectivity in Early and Late Modernity
1: A Shakespeare Machiavellian Moment, 1595-1600: An Overview
2: The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne
3: Montaigne, Shakespeare, and the Construction of Modern Subjectivity
4: The Resistance to Power in 1 Henry IV: Subjectivity in the World
5: The Reified Worlds of 2 Henry IV and Henry V
ConclusionHamlet and The Tragedy of the Subject
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

Grady provides an important reevaluation of the relevance of Machiavelli and Montaigne to the drama Shakespeare wrote from 1595 to 1600. Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakepeare and critical theory.