{"product_id":"shakespeares-roman-trilogy-the-twilight-of-the-ancient-world-paperback","title":"Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul a. Cantor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays-\u003ci\u003eCoriolanus, Julius Caeser, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e-in his landmark \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Rome\u003c\/i\u003e (1976). With \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Roman Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Roman Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul A. Cantor\u003c\/b\u003e is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, also published with a new preface by the University of Chicago Press, and the \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e volume in Cambridge's Landmarks of World Literature series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45264570122342,"sku":"9780226462516","price":63.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OHlPdHNLR2JCNUR0ZFNpMzY0eWRXQT09.webp?v=1773892222","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/shakespeares-roman-trilogy-the-twilight-of-the-ancient-world-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}