Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic

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Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic is written by Patrick Gray and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474427472 (ISBN 10) and 9781474427470 (ISBN 13).

Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It 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.