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The á la mode belief that writing is one of the manifestations of ideology establishes the status of the literary aspect as somewhat subservient to the historical aspect of the historiographic chef-d'oeuvres, reducing literature to explanatory content. In order to reinstate and reassert the importance of these literary texts it becomes important to readdress them as, not explanatory but rather as episteme alongside the canonical essays and pamphlets. Republican literature faces this grave problem and in order to address this issue literary works must be re-evaluated as epistemes. Shakespeare’s poetic and dramatic oeuvre can prove a set example. He tried to seduce the Globe’s audience to the ideas of republicanism, in order to awaken them to the concepts of individual freedom, human dignity, and social equality in a foxy-artful way. The present paper shall delve into the realms of the Shakespearean songs in order to emboss the extent of contribution they make to the further building up of the undercurrent of republicanism. |
