| located bodies – five the sovereign body |
| Slide 2 |
| Slide 3 |
| feudal monarchy and after |
| land, earth, rank and identity |
| Bolingbroke as Hereford and Lancaster |
| lineage and succession |
| hereditary rights |
| the absolute monarch |
| divine right, anointment, by grace of God (3.2.50-51) |
| the king’s two bodies |
| majesty embodied | |
| coronation – crown and king | |
| the body of England | |
| the king’s own body | |
| NB also the many body metaphors |
| challenges to the absolute monarch |
| the English revolution (17th century) and after | |
| republicanism – the res publica | |
| the commons and the commonwealth |
| the issue of representation |
| a question of political philosophy and more | |
| who is speaking when the political representative speaks? | |
| what is the relation of language to action? | |
| is it not merely ceremonial in Richard II? | |
| representation and language | |
| representation and the symbol (2.4.21 and the Welsh captain) |
| the sovereign body |
| what is its location? | |
| the body politic – the prince, the representative, the commons | |