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The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /
"When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and &#...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en liña: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kzdsqJG_1sQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+myth+of+Rome+in+Shakespeare+and+his+contemporaries&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sNxyVLueMM2KuASImoKgCw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20myth%20of%20Rome%20in%20Shakespeare%20and%20his%20contemporaries&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- The Roman historians and the myth of Rome
- The wronged Lucretian 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 repbulican tradition.