Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire. Cantor argues that Shakespeare’s Romans are not just anachronistic Elizabethans—quite different attitudes toward suicide, for example, separate Shakespeare’s Romans from his Christian contemporaries—and he finds in the Bard’s Roman plays an inkling of republican philosophy to come, something other scholars contend had yet arise in any Englishman’s mind.
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