1. Body Politic in Aracadia
Marie Axton equates this resurgence of the theory of the king's two bodies as "an attempt to deal with paradox" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant flattery and cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. ... John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. ... In accordance of the body politic as a concept which embodies "kingship", rather than the act...
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- Grade Level: Graduate