Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
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Author:
	Bradley, Arthur.
Type:
	Book Monograph
Year:
	2019
Publication Information:
	New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Series Statement:
	(Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.)
Annotation:
	Considers "Macbeth's war against unbearable life through a series of scenes of early modern and modern political terror: the Gunpowder Plot, the English Civil War, the camp." Emphasizes importance of unborn child to Macbeth and prophecy. Reprints "'Untimely Ripped'" (q.v.).
Language:
	English
Reviews:
	Gildea, Niall. Textual Practice 38, no. 5 (2024): 846-48.
Cross-References:
	Bradley, "'Untimely ripp'd': On Natality, Sovereignty, and Unbearable Life"
Keywords:
	political theology
Tags:
	Macbeth, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	aaao856