The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Warren Chernaik.

By:

Chernaik, Warren L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781139082297
1139082299
9781139080026
1139080024
9781139077736
1139077732
1139063200
9781139063203
1107214734
9781107214736
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9781283113014
9786613113016
6613113018
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9781139075473
0511921845
9780511921841
1139069713
9781139069717
9781107654075
1107654076

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.DDC classification:

822.3/3

LOC classification:

PR3069.R6 C47 2011

Other classification:

18.05
LIT004120

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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.

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

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