The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /
Chernaik presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare's Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a Roman thought
- Roman historians and the myth of Rome
- The wronged Lucretia and the early republic
- Self-inflicted wounds
- 'Like a Colossus' : Julius Caesar
- Ben Jonson's Rome
- O'erflowing the measure : Antony and Cleopatra
- The city and the battlefield : Coriolanus
- Tyranny and empire
- Ancient Britons and Romans
- Postscript: Shakespeare and the republican tradition.


