SHAKESPEARE VE EGEMENLİK: MACBETH’İN BİYOPOLİTİK BİR OKUMASI

Biopolitics has brought new perspectives on power relations in society with the conceptualization of Michelle Foucault. Although history concept goes back to past, biopolitics been used analyze and social many areas from body control population politics, thanks Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben carried another point contributed his studies sovereignty. Unlike Foucault, who claims that is a modern thought, traces ancient texts. In book Homo Sacer, allows us reflect limits sovereignty bare life. searches for holy man can be killed but not sacrificed Roman Law makes analyzes through this concept. article, it aimed make biopolitical reading William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, based Agamben's analysis Sacer. As Macbeth kills King Duncan becomes king himself, struggle ghost begins. While article seeks reasons Macbeth's inability legitimize as possessor Elizabethan political theology ideological structure, reveals, reading, fallen into position cannot legitimate killed, sovereign above sovereignty, king's mystical existence separated bodily existence. It intended killing king, retain while trying cope pain breaking sacred order an object dominant ideology. reason why legitimized discussed argument productive rather than oppressive nature, examining how transformed Sacer theory.