TY  - GEN
T1  - Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
A1  - Gray, Patrick
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-27147
AB  - Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome
 
This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It 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.
SN  - 9781474427470;9781474427487
KW  - Literature
KW  - Antony and Cleopatra
KW  - Julius Caesar
KW  - Rome
KW  - Stoicism
KW  - civil war
KW  - self
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory
ER  -