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Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
- The Twilight of the Ancient World
Engelsk Paperback
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
- The Twilight of the Ancient World
Engelsk Paperback

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Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra in his landmark Shakespeare's Rome (1976). With Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare's plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare's works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780226462516
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022646251X
Udg. Dato:
28 jun 2017
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
28 jun 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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