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Shakespeare versus Aristotle: Anagnorisis, Repentance, and Acknowledgment (2019)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2019). Shakespeare versus Aristotle: Anagnorisis, Repentance, and Acknowledgment. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 49(1), 85-111. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-7279648

Efforts to describe Shakespeare’s tragedies and place them within the history of the genre have been long misled by dubious assumptions about Shakespeare’s secularism dating back to the influence of German Romanticism. The use of concepts drawn from... Read More about Shakespeare versus Aristotle: Anagnorisis, Repentance, and Acknowledgment.

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War (2018)
Book
Gray, P. (2018). Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War. Edinburgh University Press

Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It co... Read More about Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War.

Seduced by Romanticism: Re-Imagining Shakespearean Catharsis (2018)
Book Chapter
Gray, P. (2018). Seduced by Romanticism: Re-Imagining Shakespearean Catharsis. In C. Bourne, & E. C. Bourne (Eds.), Routledge companion to Shakespeare and philosophy (510-524). Routledge

In his Poetics, Aristotle defines tragedy as a form of mimesis which produces catharsis through pity and fear. What he means by catharsis, however, is obscure. Interpretations include moral purification, medical purgation, emotional moderation, and i... Read More about Seduced by Romanticism: Re-Imagining Shakespearean Catharsis.

Shakespeare and War: Honor at the Stake (2018)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2018). Shakespeare and War: Honor at the Stake. Critical Survey, 30(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2018.300102

How does Shakespeare represent war? Guest editor Patrick Gray reviews scholarship to date on the question, as well as contributions to a special issue of Critical Survey, “Shakespeare and War.” Drawing upon St. Augustine’s City of God, the basis for... Read More about Shakespeare and War: Honor at the Stake.

Shakespeare, William (2017)
Book Chapter
Gray, P., & Clifford, H. (2017). Shakespeare, William. In M. Sgarbi (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance philosophy (1-8). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_538-1

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is the world’s most highly acclaimed literary figure, known for his plays and poems. Shakespeare is celebrated for his comic touch; kaleidoscopic, tightly structured verse; and genial sense of human nature, manifest in... Read More about Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI (2017)
Journal Article
Gray, P., & Samely, M. (2019). Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI. Textual Practice, 33(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1310755

In his treatise The Right to the City, published in Paris just before the student riots of 1968, Henri Lefebvre claims that inhabitants have a ‘right to the city’ which supersedes the rights of property owners and advocates ‘re-appropriation’ of the... Read More about Shakespeare and Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City': Subjective Alienation and Mob Violence in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI.

Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus (2016)
Book Chapter
Gray, P. (2016). Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey: Shakespeare and Rome (46-57). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/sso9781316670408.005

The influence of Virgil’s Aeneid in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is more extensive than has been recognized to date, largely because Shakespeare studies, surprisingly, still has not entirely acknowledged or addressed the more ambiguous reading of t... Read More about Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus.

Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity (2016)
Book Chapter
Gray, P. (2016). Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity. In E. A. Dodson-Robinson (Ed.), Brill's companion to the reception of Senecan tragedy : scholarly, theatrical and literary receptions (203-230). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004310988_011

Critical examination of the possibility that Senecan tragedy influenced Shakespeare has moved through several distinct phases. Early interest in verbal parallels and analogous literary conventions met with resistance from critics such as G. K. Hunter... Read More about Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity.

The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero (2016)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2016). The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero. Shakespeare-Jahrbuch (Weimar), 152, 30-44

In Julius Caesar, Brutus is a deeply attractive character, not only to his wife, Portia, and his friend, Cassius, but even to his murder victim, Caesar, as well as his chief rival, Antony. What makes Brutus so appealing, however, is a quality which h... Read More about The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero.