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Reihe: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten
Reihe: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
ISBN: 978-1-4744-2747-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome
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. 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.
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
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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. 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.
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
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
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