Watching the other day Nicholas Hytner’s promenade staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, I heard Cassius say: “Men at some time were masters of their fates./The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars./But in ourselves, that we are underlings” (1.2.140-3). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToqgxNizM-I The reference to fate reminded me of a recently published essay. Since I have…
Revolution as Hubris in Modern Tragedy
