Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome: A Political Study of the Roman Works
Author:   Barbara L. Parket
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
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9780874138610


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   31 December 2004
Format:   Hardback
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This pioneering study argues the influence of Plato's political thought on Shakespeare's Roman works: The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Titus Andronicus. It contends that Plato's theory of constitutional decline provides the philosophical core of these works; that Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra form a Platonic tetralogy collectively spanning the stages of timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny; that this decline is prefigured and encapsulated in Titus Andronicus; and that all five works are oblique commentaries on England's political milieu. Shakespeare equates the ruin of Rome with what he foresees as the corresponding decline of England deriving from England's kindred political ills, in particular the burgeoning democratic impulses fostered by the policies of both Elizabeth and James - impulses potentially leading to popular rule and the ruin of the state.

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Author:   Barbara L. Parket
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780874138610


ISBN 10:   0874138612
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   31 December 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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