Shakespeare’s Roman WorldsRoutledge, 30 mrt 2021 - 260 pagina's The ‘infinite variety’ of Shakespeare’s Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of the relationship between the characters and events in Shakespeare’s plays and the main narrative sources on which the four Roman plays are based, while simultaneously undertaking a critical analysis of the plays through the perspective of Shakespeare’s Roman worlds, particularly the creation and operation of the value system. Hence these plays are perceived as political plays, histories and tragedies. |
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... Parthian campaign and his savage treatment of Cicero (he orders the murder, dismemberment and public display of the head and hands of his political antagonist). Third, he changes important points of detail: Menenius (in.
... Cicero, the Romans in the imagination of the sixteenth century were Suetonian and Tacitan rather than Plutarchan ... it required a considerable intellectual feat to substitute the Plutarchan vision of Rome (mostly republican) for the ...
... Cicero's injunction was, for the most part, actively assented to: 'This, then, ought to be the chief end of all men, to make the interest of each individual and of the whole body politic identical'.26 But how precise can we be in ...
... Cicero makes a brief appearance; Cato's greatness is invoked; Lucius Junius Brutus' legendary feat of freeing Rome from the last of its kings constitutes a critical element in the emotional pressure of events; and Cassius, in describing ...
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Inhoudsopgave
IMAGES AND SELFIMAGES IN JULIUS CAESAR | |
REALITIES AND IMAGININGS IN ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | |
SOUNDS WORDS GESTURES AND DEEDS IN CORIOLANUS | |
CONCLUSION | |