This study presents various perspectives from which Breton investigates man: from the perspective of the -debate, from the perspective of human nature and from the perspective of man’s identity – his English, Christian, social and political identity.

Conny Loder took a MLitt at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and a PhD at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Her research focuses on Elizabethan and Jacobean reception of Machiavelli’s works, particular on drama and pamphlets and on Shakespeare Studies. She is a member of the Renaissance Drama Research Group, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon (United Kingdom). In another life, she was on a Fulbright grant, teaching German at Pacific University, Oregon (USA).

Contents: New Historicism – Cultural Studies – Human Nature – Intellect – Political and Cultural Identity – Anti-capitalistic Tendencies – Self and Other.