Shakespeare and the fall of the Roman Republic : selfhood, stoicism and civil war
Shakespeare, William, Rome
Edinburgh University Press
2019
EISBN 1474427472
Introduction: Shakespeare and the vulnerable self.
Part I. Julius Caesar.
"A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar.
"The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar.
Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare's Passion play.
Part II. Antony and Cleopatra.
"The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra.
"A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra.
Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation.
Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanism.
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.
Part I. Julius Caesar.
"A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar.
"The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar.
Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare's Passion play.
Part II. Antony and Cleopatra.
"The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra.
"A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra.
Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation.
Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanism.
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.
