Brandon Chua, 'Embodying The Common Good' - a podcast by The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)

Brandon Chua is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. He researches Restoration drama and poetry. He is currently working on a project that explores ideas of religious freedom during the English Civil War and the Restoration, and another that examines the role of gender in the construction of political subjectivities in works by John Milton, Nicholas Rowe and Eliza Haywood. This paper, ‘Embodying the Common Good: Reconstituting the Body of State on the Post-Regicide Stage’, was delivered at a conference on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. In the paper, Brandon examines the rise of the ‘She-Tragedy’ in the seventeenth century, suggesting that it sheds light on a perceived conflict between existing theatrical modes based on embodiment and an emerging form of popular sovereignty modelled on a more depersonalised notion of ‘common good’.

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