Patrick Gray
Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic

Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
128,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Weitere Ausgaben:
PAYBACK Punkte
64 °P sammeln!
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 a...