Andrew Moore’s book, Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics, is bold and enlightening.... Moore’s important book provides a philosophical framework that prods the careful reader to think more clearly about Shakespeare’s political wisdom.

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Andrew Moore clearly reveals the overlap between the political and philosophical outlook that Shakespeare expresses in his dramas and the work of Machiavelli and Hobbes. At the same time, he recognizes important differences among them. This original contribution to both modern political thought and Shakespeare scholarship is beautifully written, and deepens our appreciation of Shakespeare’s wisdom.

Mary Nichols, Baylor University

Andrew Moore’s penetration is evident in his recognition that philosophy conducts a continuous rethinking of the meaning of the concept nature. His signal contribution in these interrelated essays is to make us aware that Shakespeare’s plays conduct just such a rethinking. In the course thereof Moore gives us to understand how the playwright reveals the interdependence of moral and political liberty.

John Alvis, University of Dallas

Is it possible to say anything new about Shakespeare? Some may find it hard to believe. Still from time to time people undertake to write whole books about the Bard and sometimes it is good that they do so. Andrew Moore's book about Shakespeare as a political thinker is among those books. Although it is not entirely new to view the great playwright and his dramas as deeply embedded in the political thought of his age nor to see him as an heir to Machiavelli, Moore's reading of the dramas in the context of the emergent modern political thought from Machiavelli to Hobbes is refreshing and insightful.

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