Description: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic : Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War, Hardcover by Gray, Patrick, ISBN 1474427456, ISBN-13 9781474427456, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Shakespeare's place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.
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Book Title: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic : Selfhood, Stoici
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic : Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Shakespeare, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Patrick Gray
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 6.3 in
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy Ser.
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Hardcover
