Chapter 1 Introduction
Why are human societies hierarchical? How did centralized political authority originate? Anthropologists tell us that foraging societies are egalitarian compared to their agrarian and industrial successors. So what prompted our foraging ancestors to submit to the authority of big men, chiefs, and ki...
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| description | Why are human societies hierarchical? How did centralized political authority originate? Anthropologists tell us that foraging societies are egalitarian compared to their agrarian and industrial successors. So what prompted our foraging ancestors to submit to the authority of big men, chiefs, and kings? And how did the big man once installed in the center maintain his authority in the face of the resentment mobilized against him? Shakespeare’s Exiles addresses these fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeare’s most eccentric big men. Why does Timon, the once-legendary host of Athens, refuse to return to his beloved city? And why does Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, promise to break his staff and throw his books into the deep blue sea? In this highly original and provocative book, Richard van Oort shows that Shakespeare is not just a dramatist but a philosopher, political scientist, and anthropologist too. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1573712025-07-30T08:59:59Z Chapter 1 Introduction van Oort, Richard shakespeare,exile,Duke of Milan,anthropology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Why are human societies hierarchical? How did centralized political authority originate? Anthropologists tell us that foraging societies are egalitarian compared to their agrarian and industrial successors. So what prompted our foraging ancestors to submit to the authority of big men, chiefs, and kings? And how did the big man once installed in the center maintain his authority in the face of the resentment mobilized against him? Shakespeare’s Exiles addresses these fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeare’s most eccentric big men. Why does Timon, the once-legendary host of Athens, refuse to return to his beloved city? And why does Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, promise to break his staff and throw his books into the deep blue sea? In this highly original and provocative book, Richard van Oort shows that Shakespeare is not just a dramatist but a philosopher, political scientist, and anthropologist too. 2025-03-14T12:44:04Z 2025-03-14T12:44:04Z 2025-03-13T10:34:29Z 2025 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99930 9781032823904 9781032823911 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157371 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99930/1/9781003504276_10.4324_9781003504276-1.pdf Taylor & Francis Shakespeare’s Exiles Routledge 10.4324/9781003504276-1 10.4324/9781003504276-1 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 3690f1b3-7e45-4247-817d-d91d4a4fbb95 d576e9db-93d4-49fc-8e5a-88e92c7175ae ab06dcee-1414-4f21-b117-49431e680179 9781032823904 9781032823911 Routledge 47 University of Victoria The University of Victoria 10.13039/100008997 open access |
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