Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies.”

Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies

Guide to the Readings

Editions used:

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).

See also in the Online Library of Liberty:

• Collections: Literature

For additional reading see:

• William Shakespeare

Session One: Liberty, Tyranny, and Resistance

• Richard III

Session Two: Liberty, Sovereignty and the Rules of Succession

• Titus Andronicus

Session Three: Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Tragic Form

• Titus Andronicus

Session Four: Liberty and Weak Kingship

• Richard II

Session Five: Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Republican Ideal

• Julius Caesar

Session Six: Open Session