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| Verfasst von: | Gray, Patrick [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic |
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| Titelzusatz: | Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War |
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| Verf.angabe: | Patrick Gray |
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| Verlagsort: | Edinburgh |
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| Verlag: | Edinburgh University Press |
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| E-Jahr: | 2022 |
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| Jahr: | [2022] |
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP |
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| Schrift/Sprache: | In English |
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| Ang. zum Inhalt: | Frontmatter |
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| | CONTENTS |
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| | Acknowledgements |
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| | List of Classical Abbreviations |
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| | Series Editor’s Preface |
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| | Introduction: Shakespeare and the Vulnerable Self |
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| | Part I: Julius Caesar |
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| | 1. ‘A beast without a heart’: Pietas and Pity in Julius Caesar |
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| | 2. ‘The northern star’: Constancy and Passibility in Julius Caesar |
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| | Conclusion to Part I: Shakespeare’s Passion Play |
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| | Part II: Antony and Cleopatra |
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| | 3. ‘The high Roman fashion’: Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra |
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| | 4. ‘A spacious mirror’: Interpellation and the Other in Antony and Cleopatra |
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| | Conclusion to Part II: The Last Interpellation |
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| | Conclusion: Between Humanism and Antihumanism |
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| | Bibliography |
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| | Index |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-4744-2747-0 |
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| Abstract: | Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient RomeShakespeare 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 warsShows how Shakespeare uses Roman history as a testing-ground to arbitrate between competing claims about human natureArticulates Shakespeare’s distinctive, compromise position on selfhoodSituates Shakespeare within the intellectual history of individualism, Christianity, Romanticism, secularization, and political liberalism |
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| URL: | kostenfrei: Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474427470 |
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| Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Sach-SW: | Literary Studies |
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| | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1800725582 |
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