Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War.
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 106113
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474427456
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22304
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the product of ten years’ work. It is 300 pages and 125,000 words long. Research for this output was exceptionally demanding, given the wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and synthetic nature of the inquiry. The monograph compares Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome to both ancient and modern historians. It demonstrates Shakespeare’s indebtedness to medieval biblical drama. It situates Shakespeare vis-à-vis the intellectual history of selfhood, ranging from antiquity to the present day, and including theology and psychoanalysis, as well as philosophy. It reviews debates about method within literary criticism and articulates a new theoretical approach to Shakespeare studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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