Amongst Fortune’s Wheel. A Machiavellian Reading of Julius Cesar
This article offers a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, exploring the Machiavellian framework embedded within this Shakespearean tragedy. Drawing on the concepts of fortune, virtù, and the political realm as presented in The P...
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Escuela de Filosofía. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Sumario: | This article offers a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, exploring the Machiavellian framework embedded within this Shakespearean tragedy. Drawing on the concepts of fortune, virtù, and the political realm as presented in The Prince, the article examines how the characters' decisions, tensions, and failures unfold according to Machiavellian political thinking. This approach reveals the play as a tragic meditation on the impossibility of preserving or adapting certain classical ideals—specifically those of the Roman Republic—when confronted with an emerging new political order: the Roman Empire. Beyond this introduction, the work comprises four sections: a conceptual exploration of fortune, virtù, and the political realm as our theoretical framework; an analysis of Marcus Brutus's character in light of these concepts; a comparison between Anthony and Cassius as political alternatives to Brutus's flawed course of action; and finally, concluding thoughts on the relationship between politics and tragedy. |
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