Three Roman Plays
Title | Three Roman Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1995-05-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781417704026 |
While "Julius Caesar" and "Coriolanus" are concentrated on the city of Rome, the epic love affair of "Antony and Cleopatra" extends across the Empire. Each of these plays is profoundly concerned with political action, with the relation between the political and the personal. Shakespeare, like Plutarch, closely scrutinizes his heroes and compels us to question what sort of men they are.
Three Roman Plays
Title | Three Roman Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780140434613 |
In this collection each play is accompanied by notes and an introduction, making this edition of particular value to students and theatre-goers.
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Title | Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy PDF eBook |
Author | Paul A. Cantor |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2017-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022646251X |
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.
CLASSICS Three Roman Plays
Title | CLASSICS Three Roman Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Generals |
ISBN |
Julius Caesar
Title | Julius Caesar PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Castrovilli Giuseppe |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1957 |
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ISBN |
Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre
Title | Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | George Harrison |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2013-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004245456 |
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.
Antony & Cleopatra
Title | Antony & Cleopatra PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |