Christopher Pye Books

The book delves into the interplay between theater and power during the English Renaissance, focusing on key Shakespearean plays such as Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth. It intertwines cultural materials like philosophical and historical perspectives on sovereignty, along with visual representations of royalty and themes of treason. This reissued edition offers a comprehensive analysis that will benefit students of Shakespeare and those interested in cultural analysis, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic interpretation.

Ranging from Leonardo to Hobbes, The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare argues that it is through an engagement with the problem of aesthetic autonomy that the early modern work most profoundly explores its relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty and political subjectivity.