Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 63 IS - 2 T2 - SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 SP - 117-42 ID - bbbo618 T1 - "Shakespeare's Early Histories and the Construction of Government" AU - Olson, Paul A PY - 2025 DA - 2026 DO - https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sel.2025.a959889 KW - government LA - English AB - Suggests that Shakespeare's first tetralogy "relies on accounts of the Fall ... and the return from it through divinely blessed kingship that are present in syncretic readings of Ovid and the Bible." Rejects readings of these plays as entirely Hobbesian. English summary, 117. ER -