Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city’: subjective alienation and mob violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI

Shakespeare and War

“…The utopian, Hegelian version of Marxism proposed by Henri Lefebvre and enacted, even if only briefly, by his students in the riots in Paris in May 1968 proved unsustainable; or at least, much more difficult to believe in, over time, than had been supposed. 3 So, it was exchanged for the more sinister, Stalinist Marxism of Althusser, together with what Lee Patterson aptly describes as Foucault's "nightmare," a "totalizing vision of an entrapping world organized not primarily but exclusively by structures of domination and submission." 4 It was not anyone's fault that the revolution did not succeed; it never could have in the first place.…”