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Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
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Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome, comparing him to historical figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel, and Nietzsche. It examines Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas and its relevance to contemporary concerns about secularization, individualism, and liberalism.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 17 September 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic explores Shakespeare's portrayal of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome. It presents 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 depicts Rome's transition from a republic to an empire. Why did Rome degenerate into an autocracy? Shakespeare's portrayal of Rome suggests that it is bound for civil war due to ruthless competition, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and self-indulgent fantasies. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularization, individualism, and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, and Patrick Deneen.
Key Features:
Explains Shakespeare's interpretation of the underlying causes of the Roman Republican civil wars.
Shows how Shakespeare uses Roman history as a testing ground to arbitrate between competing claims about human nature.
Articulates Shakespeare's distinctive, compromise position on selfhood.
Situates Shakespeare within the intellectual history of individualism, Christianity, Romanticism, secularization, and political liberalism.
Weight: 476g
Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474427463
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