Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140434613
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
In this collection each play is accompanied by notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers.
Three Roman Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140434613
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
In this collection each play is accompanied by notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140434613
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
In this collection each play is accompanied by notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers.
Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Pages : 698
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Shakespeare's Rome
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646895X
Category : Drama
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646895X
Category : Drama
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.
Antony & Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Pages : 298
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The Odyssey of Love
Author: Paul Krause
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725297396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725297396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Historical Plays: Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King John
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Pages : 502
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Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare
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Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Pages : 486
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