Contents
Introduction
God's words - the violence of representation
Construing meanings of violence
The Ghost's Armour in Hamlet
The
undecidability of the revenant
The armour
Titus Andronicus- A Wilderness of Tigers?
Enjoying Lucrece - Shakespeare versus Heywood
Trimming the Garden - Order and Force in Richard II
The
king's name
Past and present
Re-writing past virtues as Machiavellian virtu
Bloodletting and blood spilling
Honour and War - the Redeeming Qualities of Violence in Henry IV
From a pilgrimage to a crusade
Transvaluing violence and injured bodies
The pursuit of honour as destructive expenditure
"What
is honour?"— the deconstruction of chivalric values
Counterfeit honour - high and low
"But if the Cause be not Good" - Authorization of Violence in Henry V
Not an epic spectacle of military heroics
"The sin upon my head dread sovereign" — the legitimacy of the war against France
The
authority of the past —"Forage in the blood of French nobility
The religious sanction — "In liberty of bloody
hand"
Voices from the platea —"Minding true things by what their mockeries be"
Sexual domination and conquest
Undoing
Nationalist Leanings in Teaching Shakespeare
Shakespeare
is universal
Shakespeare in Romanian secondary schools