The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

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Chernaik presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare's Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chernaik, Warren L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jonson, Ben, > 1573?-1637 > Criticism and interpretation.
Massinger, Philip, > 1583-1640 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chapman, George, > 1559?-1634 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chapman, George, > 1559?-1634
Jonson, Ben, > 1573?-1637
Massinger, Philip, > 1583-1640
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Historical drama, English > History and criticism.
Théâtre historique anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Historical drama, English
Literature
Toneelstukken.
Engels.
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Rome.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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