The Third Citizen - Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

Acknowledgments ix Note on References and Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 ONE Parliament in Shakespeare's England 1 "An epitome of the whole realme": Absorption and Representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons 47 2 Cade's Mouth: Swallowing Parliament in the First Tetralogy 76 TWO Political Representation in Shakespeare's Rome 3 "Their tribune and their trust": Political Representation, Property, and Rape in Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece 101 4 "Caesar is turn'd to hear": Theater, Popular Dictatorship, and the Conspiracy of Republicanism in Julius Caesar 140 5 "Worshipful mutineers": From Demos to Electorate in Coriolanus 179 Epilogue. Losing Power, Losing Oneself: The Third Citizen and Tragedy 215 Notes 223 Works Cited 277 Index 295