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

by Patrick Gray

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474427456
• ISBN13: 9781474427456
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"