Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140434613
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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In this collection each play is accompanied by notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers.
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: George Harrison
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004245456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Author: Thomas Alan Dorey
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Kelley Rees
Publisher:
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Category : Greek drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : Miniature books
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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