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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.5fo3oz
- isbn: 9782878541793
- eisbn: 9782878548563
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Frontier troubles Hostilities Conflict, Armed (War) Wars Armed conflict (War) Fighting Eyesight Seeing Sight Stage Dramatics Histrionics Theatre Professional theater Sovereignty--Law and legislation State sovereignty (International relations) 16th century 17th century Rose Rosa Parliamentary government Representation Self-government Political representation Socratic method Interrogation Rulers Sovereigns Royalty Political thought Government Political theory Civil government Commonwealth, The Science, Political Administration Politics Historiography, Naval Naval historiography Wars Naval history--Historiography History, Naval Military history--Historiography Wars Military historiography Rulers Monarchs Kings and rulers, Primitive Sovereigns Royalty Annals Amleth (Legendary character) Hamlet Mistakes Rulers Sovereigns Higher law Kings, Divine right of Concept formation War claims Claims--Law and legislation International claims Private claimsCiter ce document
Raymond Gardette, « Rois sans royaume », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.5fo3oz
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Shakespeare's theatre testifies to the gradual questioning, throughout the 16th century, of the medieval concept of the divine right of kings. The two histories devoted to the reigns of Richard II and Richard III, terminus a quo and terminus ad quem of the Wars of the Roses, focussed, to say the least, on the political mistakes of the two sovereigns, whatever their claims to legitimacy might have been. At the turn of the century, Hamlet was the allegorical representation of a kingdom deprived of its legitimate ruler. Shakespeare's vision of kings without kingdoms and/or of kingdoms without kings underscored the inevitable conflict between the age-old belief in the divinity of kings and the modem concept of sovereignty. It may be said to have foreshadowed the social and political upheavals of the 17th century which were to change “the corpus mysticum of the realm” (Ernst Kantorowicz) into pre-revolutionary concepts of the state.