Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. In Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare shows Rome's transition from Republic to Empire. Why did Rome degenerate into an autocracy? Alternating between ruthless competition, Stoicism, Epicureanism and self-indulgent fantasies, Rome as Shakespeare sees it is inevitably bound for civil war. Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic considers Shakes…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4744-2745-6
- EAN: 9781474427456
- Produktnummer: 23364324
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.3 cm 590 g
- Gewicht: 590
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Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies at Durham University. He is co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (Cambridge UP, 2014), guest editor of a special issue of Critical Survey on Shakespeare and war, and currently co-editing a collection of essays on Shakespeare and Montaigne. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Textual Practice, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Comparative Drama, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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