TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Patrick
TI  - Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War 
SN  - 9781474427470
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d0538870-e90f-4d3e-bc5d-aa063ee88d8d
ER  -