Alex Schulman is a Lecturer in the Political Science department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has taught political theory at UCLA, Harvard, Duke, and Brown, and held a New Faculty Fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of The Secular Contract: The Politics of Enlightenment (2011).

• Introduction; Part I: Shakespearean Antiquity; Chapter 1: The Birth of Tragicomedy (In the Defeat of Hector by Ulysses); Chapter 2: Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II: Shakespearean Modernity; Chapter 3: King Lear and the State of Nature; Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s Novus Ordo Saeclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; Chapter 5: Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds

Alex Schulman is a Lecturer in the Political Science department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has taught political theory at UCLA, Harvard, Duke, and Brown, and held a New Faculty Fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of The Secular Contract: The Politics of Enlightenment (2011).

• Introduction; Part I: Shakespearean Antiquity; Chapter 1: The Birth of Tragicomedy (In the Defeat of Hector by Ulysses); Chapter 2: Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II: Shakespearean Modernity; Chapter 3: King Lear and the State of Nature; Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s Novus Ordo Saeclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; Chapter 5: Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds