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Click hereAbstractThis interdisciplinary project employs political philosophy from Stirner, Hobbes, and Nozick to conceptualize the masculinities and politics present in Homer’s
Iliad and Doran’s
Troilus and Cressida. By observing the one-to-one, male-male dominance hierarchies present in Homer’s text, Stirner’s Ego aptly explains Achilles’ rejection of these aforementioned hierarchies. Similarly, Doran’s RSC production draws inspiration from
Mad Max: Fury Road, which opens the play up to Hobbesian state of nature theory and subsequently Nozick’s theory of protective associations. Fundamentally, this political philosophy guides a larger discourse regarding the RSC’s treatment of heroic masculinities and its consequences for the RSC’s younger, male audience.
