The Tears of SovereigntyA comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the periodWilliam Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Caldern de la Barcareconstitute the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to conceive the problems of sovereignty. The book focuses in particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform sovereigntys conceptualization