Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613 / by Kernan, Alvin B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Shakespeare at the Stuart Court -- Art and theater in the service of the Leviathan state -- Blood revenge in Elsinore and in holyrood : Hamlet (Hampton Court, Christmas 1603) -- The king's prerogative and the law : Measure for measure (Whitehall, December 26, 1604) -- The politics of madness and demonism : Macbeth (Hampton Court, August 7, 1606) -- The true king : Lear (Whitehall, Christmas 1606) -- Sex and favor in the court : Antony and Cleopatra (Whitehall, Christmas 1607) -- The military and the court aristocracies : Coriolanus (Whitehall, Christmas 1608) -- The king and the poet : The tempest (Whitehall, Winter 1613) -- Shakespeare's sonnets and patronage art -- What the king saw, what the poet wrote -- Appendix A : Theatrical calendar of the King's Men at court, 1603-14 -- Appendix B : The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605.…”