Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Lupić points out throughout his cogently argued, crisply written, and comprehensively researched book, the shaping and the performance of early modern selfhood depended upon personal and political conditions that the world required of an individual; moreover, identity fashioning seldom took place fully without the benefit of a counsel . . . [T]his engrossing study opens up new critical paths, stretching beyond English drama. This is a book of comparative literary history and historiography; it connects text and theatre within a wide early modern world of cross-linguistic exchange. The critical idiom and methodological approach are unique and refreshing, often polemical and consistently rewarding." *
Renaissance and Reformation *
"Looking beyond the canonical Renaissance and its texts, Ivan Lupić offers readers a rich and subtle understanding of the nature of counsel in the period, as both a political and a cultural experience.
Subjects of Advice is a valuable and welcome addition to the field of early modern studies." * Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh *
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Subjects of Advice offers both a genuinely original view of such familiar works as
Utopia and
King Lear and an importantly recuperative account of works that were significant in their own time, but have been marginalized by literary history, such as
Cambyses. It is a fascinating and revelatory book." * Stephen Orgel, Stanford University *
