Rome and the Spirit of Caesar, providing a fresh interpretation of
Julius Caesar, is a thorough examination of Shakespeare's
presentation of the final throes of republican Rome's political
decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism. As in his previous
studies of Shakespeare's plays, Blits, pursuing his distinctive
approach, follows Caesar through, scene by scene, speech by speech,
line by line, reaching his conclusions by closely examining
Shakespeare's text. Approaching the play as a coherent whole, he
examines the whole in the light of its parts and the parts in the
light of the whole. Since each presupposes the other, he considers
the whole and its parts together. He carefully relates the play's
details to its major themes and grounds the themes in, and supports
them by, the details. While intruding no literary theory on the
play, Blits brings out the historical and perennial political
substance that Shakespeare deliberately put into it. He shows that
Caesar is a work of historical poetry, shaped by Shakespeare's
mastery of the Roman histories and the Hellenistic philosophies
bearing directly on his subject. Topics include the love of honor
and fame, heroic ambition and glory, virtue and honor, civic
strife, political murder, the role of political oratory, public
versus private interests, Caesarism, the decay of liberty, loyalty,
demagoguery, luxury, spiritedness, superstition, Stoicism and
Epicureanism, manliness, friendship, moral intimidation, political
imprudence, foreign and civil war, universal empire, and the advent
of Christianity.
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