Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome

Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome
Author: Barbara L. Parker
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780874138610


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This study contends that Plato's theory of constitutional decline provides the philosophical core of Shakespeare's Roman works; that Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra form a "Platonic" tetralogy collectively spanning the stages of timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyrrany; that this decline is prefigured and encapsulated in Titus Andronicus; and that all five works are oblique commentaries on England's political milieu. --book jacket.


Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Barbara L. Parker
Categories: English drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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This study contends that Plato's theory of constitutional decline provides the philosophical core of Shakespeare's Roman works; that Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius
Shakespeare's Rome
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Robert S. Miola
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book studies Shakespeare's changing vision of Rome in the six works where the city serves as a setting. Unlike other scholars treatment, the subject Dr Mio
Shakespeare's Rome
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Paul A. Cantor
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare's Rome
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Maria Del Sapio Garbero
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Paul A. Cantor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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). Wit