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3 Shakespeare’s Increase: Vegetative Life in The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus
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Published:May 2024
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Abstract
This chapter considers another facet of the political future by shifting from sovereignty to biopolitics. That is to say, the diminutive figure of the child creates outsized impacts on the works of sovereignty and consequently focuses attention on a series of scalar relations that inform conceptions of power, governance, and political collectivity. Out of familiar genealogical figures, blood and branches, Shakespeare builds a network of biopoetic figures that suggests an entanglement of life and politics not reducible to familiar conversations about agency, individuality, and choice of governmental form. Shakespeare’s Rome has offered a site for wide-ranging conversations about masculine virtue, bodily integrity, England’s republican leanings, and political choice, among others; it also offers a privileged site for exploring how the child draws attention to quantitative and qualitative reckonings of life and its promise in governable futures, which some refer to as biopolitics. Through readings of The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus the chapter explores how what kind of life women and children constitute at the ambiguous juncture of sovereignty and governmentality and in a paradoxical age of plague, one in which some lives are rendered unliving sources or embodiments of life.
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