Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar /

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Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wills, Garry, 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Series:Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Julius Caesar.
Caesar, Julius > In literature.
Caesar, Julius.
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William)
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Rhétorique de la Renaissance.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Literature.
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Caesar: mighty yet
  • Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual
  • Antony: the fox knows many things
  • Cassius: parallel lives.

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