Shakespeare's Politics - Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

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6 жыл бұрын

It is well known that Shakespeare lived in an age of monarchy and wrote powerfully in his English history plays about the duties of the sovereign.
In this lecture, Jonathan Bate will tell another, forgotten story: of how Shakespeare was also fascinated by Roman political models, especially the theory of civic duties expounded by Cicero, who appears as a character in Julius Caesar. He will also show how Shakespeare looked to Horace for a model of the public role of the writer.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an...
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@danielintheantipodes6741 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful lecture. Thank you for creating it. And to Gresham for commissioning it.

@ScottLordnovelist 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you again Professor Bate for this and for your Online Future Learn classes.

@allanderek4631 3 жыл бұрын

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@braydonkolton292 3 жыл бұрын

@Allan Derek yup, been using instaflixxer for months myself :D

@roniquebreauxjordan1302 3 жыл бұрын

..the "backstories" that endure..thank you.

@ahmedabdallah2040 3 жыл бұрын

You are Einstein of literature.

@noisenik 8 ай бұрын

that was Ariastarchos of Samothrace, who first conceived of linguitic and moral change in historic time....

@musicstewart9744 5 жыл бұрын

This lecture helped me think through some of the reasons why I find the current executive of the United States so disgusting. Thanks.

@charlessloboda-bolton3135 6 жыл бұрын

great talk! sad I couldn't be there! Though I do think you could have done a better job with those last two lines of versified Plutarch... A line of Trochees? in Shakespeare???

@tracik1277 5 жыл бұрын

Charles Sloboda-Bolton oh what a mean and mealy-mouthed remark

@noisenik 8 ай бұрын

"... as if nothing had chnaged" : rubbish... civil disorder was the substrate of socio-political chaos and contestation.... The hardest matter is to read around the very different limits of licit speech, that theoretic speculation is, if less than half a century before the War in 3 Kingdoms, or, now abjurd Civil War, yet the specicities of dynastic legitimisation are intensely censored: eg "sweet Kate" must be sooo peachy as ancestress, controversalially as maybe, of the Tudors....

@noisenik 8 ай бұрын

ps note that the poltical virtue of external war contra the forces toward contention intrs the State, ie Civil war, see the 1471 writings of Sir John Fortesque and as bolstered and reiterated by the Alcock in address to Parliament in soliciting taxation for war with France ... note too that the cruel Tistoft pre-empts Macjiavelli and at his death justified his cruelities as "for the State" hence the discourse of politiics is older than its enthroned canonic moments... Jon.....