Worldly Shakespeare

The first study to consider Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of contemporary agonistic political philosophy In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness , the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if ‘All the world’s a stage’, then ‘all the men and women in it’ are ‘merely players’. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference betwee