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Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome
A Political Study of the Roman Works
Barbara L. Parker
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 politics of both Elizabeth and James—impulses potentially leading to popular rule and the ruin of the state.
Details
Details
Author
Author
University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 183 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-249-1 • Hardback • April 2004 •
$96.00
• (£74.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
Barbara L. Parker
is Professor of English at William Paterson University
Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome
A Political Study of the Roman Works
Hardback
$96.00
Summary
Summary
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 politics of both Elizabeth and James—impulses potentially leading to popular rule and the ruin of the state.
Details
Details
University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 183 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-249-1 • Hardback • April 2004 •
$96.00
• (£74.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
Author
Author
Barbara L. Parker
is Professor of English at William Paterson University
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