Shakespeare's Rome (Cantor - paperback)

Author: Paul A. Cantor

File under: Cantor

ISBN: 9780226468952

Binding: paperback

Section: Political-Science

Subtitle: Republic and Empire

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's Shakespeare's Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to argue that they are grounded in a profound understanding of the Roman regime and its changes over time. Taking Shakespeare seriously as a political thinker, Cantor suggests that his Roman plays can be profitably studied in the context of the classical republican tradition in political philosophy.