Richard Wilson discusses “‘The lean, unwashed articer’: Shakespeare’s Missing Magna Carta”. Wilson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University. This talk was included in the session titled, “Citizen Skepticism and Political Agency”.

Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics

“The lean, unwashed articer": Shakespeare’s Missing Magna Carta

The “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s society comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority.

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Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depths of Politics