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245 0 0 _aShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
_bSelfhood, Stoicism and Civil War /
_cPatrick Gray.
020 _a9781474427470
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100 1 _aGray, Patrick
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264 1 _bEdinburgh University Press,
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520 _aShakespeare 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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590 _aKU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books
650 7 _aLiterary Criticism / Shakespeare
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650 0 _aLiterature
_xHistory and criticism
655 0 _aElectronic books.
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