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Author: Paul N. Siegel
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780838632512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Shakespearean drama's Christian overtones, explaining why they have been ignored for so long and how those overtones can influence one's interpretation of Shakespeare's work.
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 022646895X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
Author: Daniela Guardamagna
Publisher: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781787079670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the memory of Rome: the dialectic between the glorious historical past of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and its echoes, representations and interpretations in the works of Shakespeare. Topics include Shakespeare's rewritings of Roman narratives, modern performances of his work and the music accompanying Roman plays.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1465585532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdaptación del "Coriolanus" de Shakespeare ambientada en la Roma contemporánea. Coriolano es un general que cae en desgracia y es desterrado a una región remota. Allí reclutará los hombres necesarios para formar un ejército y vengarse de sus enemigos. (FILMAFFINITY).
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-12-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521775397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-01
Total Pages: 127
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author: John Wilders
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Of the many books on Shakespeare's history plays, this is the first conceived in terms of ideas rather than of individual plays, and treating both the English and the Roman plays alike as evidence of the dramatist's point of view. In his wide-ranging and original enquiry into Shakespeare's interpretation of history, Dr Wilders devotes each chapter to an idea which can be discerned in all the history plays. The historical characters are shown to be subject to the changing processes of time which ruin their achievements, and the arbitrary, unpredictable influence of fate or fortune which thwarts their ambitions. The choices they are compelled to make place them in impossible dilemmas: action of some kind is obligatory but no available course is satisfactory. In time of crisis they appeal to God or the supernatural but their prayers are seldom, if ever, answered. The struggles they undergo arise from limitations inherent in the human condition. At times they look back with regret to an imaginary golden age-- such as the days of Edward III or Henry V - to a demi-paradise: the 'lost garden' of the book's title. In developing his theme Dr. Wilders strongly challenges the interpretation of the E.M.W. Tillyard which many students uncritically accept as the 'orthodox' approach to the history plays." -Publisher.
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-06-28
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 022646251X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul 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: Castrovilli Giuseppe
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Gray
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-09-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1474427472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare's place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.
