Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility
This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies.”
Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies
Guide to the Readings
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For additional reading see:
Session One: Liberty, Tyranny, and Resistance
Session Two: Liberty, Sovereignty and the Rules of Succession
Session Three: Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Tragic Form
Session Four: Liberty and Weak Kingship
Session Five: Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Republican Ideal
Session Six: Open Session
Reading Lists
- American Liberty in Political Documents before 1787
- An Introduction to the Major Writings of Ludwig von Mises
- British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism
- Burlamaqui, Bayle: Freedom Tolerance, Natural Law
- Cato’s Letters: Liberty and Responsibility
- Cobden: Liberty and Peace
- Constant’s Principles of Politics
- Eric Mack, An Introduction to the Political Thought of John Locke
- Gibbon and the Rise of Christianity and Islam
- Homer’s Iliad: Liberty and Responsibility
- Hume, Smith, and Ferguson: Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption
- Hume: History of England
- James Tyrrell on Authority and Liberty
- Jefferson-Hamilton Debate
- Major Political Thinkers: Plato to Mill
- Mandeville: Vice, Virtue and Liberty
- Mill-Macaulay Debate on Government
- Milton: Liberty in his Prose and Poetry
- Old Testament and English Political Thought
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era
- Rousseau and Hume: Contrasting Views of Liberty
- Shakespeare and Marlowe: Liberty in Four Plays
- Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility
- Sophocles and Aeschylus: Blood Justice and the Founding of Legal Order
- Tacitus: Liberty and Tyranny in the Annals
- Thomas Paine and American Liberty
- Thucydides: War, Empire, and Liberty