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Chapter 1 - Julius Caesar and Reified Power

The End of Shakespeare’s Machiavellian Moment

from Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

Hugh Grady
Affiliation:
Arcadia University, Pennsylvania
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Summary

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, after Mark Antony’s wildly successful speech to the multitudes at Caesar’s funeral, he watches the resulting uprising with satisfaction and remarks, “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. / Take thou what course thou wilt!”1

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Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope
From the Political to the Utopian
, pp. 27 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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