Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War (2019), editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (2019), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (2014). His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Skenè, JMEMS, Comparative Drama, and Textual Practice.

Gray’s penetrating eye for textual analysis, his vast and versatile erudition and his extreme sensitivity for the depths of the complexity of the human mind result in gripping new insights into two plays that, it turns out, we did not know as well as we thought.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shakespeare and the vulnerable self Part I. Julius CaesarChapter 1. "A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar Chapter 2. "The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare’s Passion play Part II. Antony and CleopatraChapter 3. "The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 4. "A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanismIndex

Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War (2019), editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (2019), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (2014). His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Skenè, JMEMS, Comparative Drama, and Textual Practice.

Gray’s penetrating eye for textual analysis, his vast and versatile erudition and his extreme sensitivity for the depths of the complexity of the human mind result in gripping new insights into two plays that, it turns out, we did not know as well as we thought.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shakespeare and the vulnerable self Part I. Julius CaesarChapter 1. "A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar Chapter 2. "The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare’s Passion play Part II. Antony and CleopatraChapter 3. "The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 4. "A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanismIndex

Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War (2019), editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (2019), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (2014). His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Skenè, JMEMS, Comparative Drama, and Textual Practice.

Gray’s penetrating eye for textual analysis, his vast and versatile erudition and his extreme sensitivity for the depths of the complexity of the human mind result in gripping new insights into two plays that, it turns out, we did not know as well as we thought.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shakespeare and the vulnerable self Part I. Julius CaesarChapter 1. "A beast without a heart": Pietas and pity in Julius Caesar Chapter 2. "The northern star": Constancy and passibility in Julius Caesar Conclusion to Part 1: Shakespeare’s Passion play Part II. Antony and CleopatraChapter 3. "The high Roman fashion": Suicide and Stoicism in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 4. "A spacious mirror": Interpellation and the other in Antony and Cleopatra Conclusion to Part II: The last interpellation Conclusion: Between humanism and antihumanismIndex