Author: Sir Mungo William MacCallumPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus.; Roman plays in the sixteenth century.
Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background
Author: Sir Mungo William MacCallumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus.; Roman plays in the sixteenth century.
SHAKESPEARE'S ROMAN PLAYS AND THEIR BACKGROUND
Author: M. W. MACCALLUMPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033503690
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background
Author: M. W. MacCallumShakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background
Author: Mungo William MacCallumPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background
Author: Sir Mungo William MacCallumPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Author: Paul A. CantorPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare’s plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare’s works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.
Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays
Author: Paul N. SiegelPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632512
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Examines Shakespearean drama's Christian overtones, explaining why they have been ignored for so long and how those overtones can influence one's interpretation of Shakespeare's work.
Shakespeare's Roman Plays
Author: Maurice CharneyPublisher: Cambridge, Harvard U. P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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Shakespeare on Screen : The Roman Plays
Author: Sarah HatchuelPublisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN: 2877758427
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Is there a specificity to adapting a Roman play to the screen ? This volume interrogates the ways directors and actors have filmed and performed the Shakespearean works known as the "Roman plays", which are, in chronological order of writing, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. In the variety of plays and story lines, common questions nevertheless arise. Is there such a thing as filmic "Romanness"? By exploring the different ways in which the Roman plays are re-interpreted in the light of Roman history, film history and the Shakespearean tradition, the papers in this volume all take part in the ceaseless investigation of what the plays keep saying not only about our vision of the past, but also about our perception of the present.
Shakespeare's Rome
Author: Paul A. CantorPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646895X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
For more than forty years, Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to argue that they are grounded in a profound understanding of the Roman regime and its changes over time. Taking Shakespeare seriously as a political thinker, Cantor suggests that his Roman plays can be profitably studied in the context of the classical republican tradition in political philosophy. In Shakespeare’s Rome, Cantor examines the political settings of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra, with references as well to Julius Caesar. Cantor shows that Shakespeare presents a convincing portrait of Rome in different eras of its history, contrasting the austere republic of Coriolanus, with its narrow horizons and martial virtues, and the cosmopolitan empire of Antony and Cleopatra, with its “immortal longings” and sophistication bordering on decadence.