Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781474427456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Patrick Gray

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shakespeare and the vulnerable self; Part I. Julius Caesar; 1. "A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar; 2. "The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar; Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare’s Passion play; Part II. Antony and Cleopatra; 3. "The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra; 4. "A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra; Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation; Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanism; Index.