located bodies – five the sovereign body
feudal monarchy and after
land, earth, rank and identity Bolingbroke as Hereford and Lancaster
lineage and succession hereditary rights
the absolute monarch divine right, anointment, by grace of God (3.2.50-51)
the king’s two bodies majesty embodied coronation – crown and king the body of England the king’s own body NB also the many body metaphors
challenges to the absolute monarch the English revolution (17th century) and after republicanism – the res publica the commons and the commonwealth
the issue of representation a question of political philosophy and more who is speaking when the political representative speaks? what is the relation of language to action? is it not merely ceremonial in Richard II? representation and language representation and the symbol (2.4.21 and the Welsh captain)
the sovereign body what is its location? the body politic – the prince, the representative, the commons