The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World

Author:   Christopher Pye
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 February 2026
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The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World


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Author:   Christopher Pye
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9781531513832


ISBN 10:   1531513832
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1 Introduction: The World Elsewhere 7 1. The Autopoietics of Tragedy 29 2. Timon of Athens, Autopoiesis, and the Political-Aesthetic Foundations of the Polis 52 3. A New Air: Tragedy, Being, and History in Anthony and Cleopatra 73 4. Comedy and Romance: The Autopoietics of Socius and World 91 5. Hurt Feelings: Affect, World, and Time in As You Like It 116 6. The Spider and the Spinning Wheel: Techne, Animality, and the Autopoietics of Touch in Velázquez 134 Acknowledgments 157 Notes 159 Bibliography 183 Index 195

Reviews

""Pye treats readers to riveting and insightful interpretations of Shakespearean theater, while, in the process, making a brilliant case for the province of aesthetics. The Antic Root is not only a major contribution to Shakespeare studies but also a compelling philosophical-ethical meditation on aesthetics.""---Russ Leo, Princeton University ""The scholarship, depth of theoretical insight, and close literary analysis are superb and come together in an admirably lucid, invitingly written book about something that most scholarship today chooses to forget: the simple but inescapable fact of subjective mediation in matters concerning not just art, but also politics and the apprehension of a world. Pye's study is compulsively readable, erudite, and philosophically sharp.""---Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, CUNY


Author Information

Christopher Pye is Class of 1924 Professor of English Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare (2015), The Vanishing: Shakespeare, The Subject and Early Modern Culture (2000), and The Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle (1990), and editor of Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare (2020).

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