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In this study the author argues that plays as diverse as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure belong to the schizoid politics of Britain as an emerging nation-state. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Freud, Lacan, and Bakhtin, it situates the comedies and their production of pleasure historically.Hall, Jonathan is the author of 'Anxious Pleasures Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation State' with ISBN 9780838635698 and ISBN 0838635695.
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