Chapter 1: Political Power and the Natural Order: Richard III,
Macbeth, and Coriolanus.
Chapter 2: Shakespeare and the State of Nature: King Lear and
Othello
Chapter 3: Violence and Politics: Julius Caesar and Lucrece
Chapter 4: Faith, Morality, and Contractual Politics: The Merchant
of Venice and Measure for Measure
Chapter 5: Tyranny and Consent: Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, and
Cymbeline
Andrew Moore is associate professor of great books at St. Thomas University.
Andrew Moore’s book, Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes:
Dead Body Politics, is bold and enlightening.... Moore’s important
book provides a philosophical framework that prods the careful
reader to think more clearly about Shakespeare’s political
wisdom.
*VoegelinView*
Andrew Moore clearly reveals the overlap between the political and
philosophical outlook that Shakespeare expresses in his dramas and
the work of Machiavelli and Hobbes. At the same time, he recognizes
important differences among them. This original contribution
to both modern political thought and Shakespeare scholarship is
beautifully written, and deepens our appreciation of Shakespeare’s
wisdom.
*Mary Nichols, Baylor University*
Andrew Moore’s penetration is evident in his recognition that
philosophy conducts a continuous rethinking of the meaning of the
concept nature. His signal contribution in these interrelated
essays is to make us aware that Shakespeare’s plays conduct just
such a rethinking. In the course thereof Moore gives us to
understand how the playwright reveals the interdependence of moral
and political liberty.
*John Alvis, University of Dallas*
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