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

• প্রধান লেখক: Gray, Patrick (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Edinburgh University Press 2018
• বিষয়গুলি: Literary theory; Literature; Antony and Cleopatra; Julius Caesar; Rome; Stoicism; civil war; self
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

সংক্ষিপ্ত

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.

আইসবিএন

9781474427470;9781474427487

প্রবেশাধিকার

Open Access