Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
In Our Time: History
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The Christian Element in Shakespeare's Thoughts
Shakespeare says that the savagery of ancient Rome is little different from that of the barbarians to whom they want to consider themselves distinct. He's on the other side of- of Christianity, of what Nietzsche would call the sort of slave revolt and morals. And so he captures that in Titus Andronicus and comes back to it in a more subtle way later.
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