Shakespeare's Roman trilogy : the twilight of the ancient world /
"Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays--Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra--in his landmark Shakespeare's Rome. With Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of the...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Shakespeare's Rome revisited
- Part 1. Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and the revaluation of Roman values. Shakespeare's tragic city : the rise and fall of the Roman republic
- "The Roman Caesar with Christ's soul" : Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome and Christianity
- Part 2. Further explorations of Shakespeare's Rome. Beasts and gods : titanic heroes and the tragedy of Rome
- Shakespeare's parallel lives : Plutarch and the Roman plays
- Shakespeare and the Mediterranean : the centrality of the classical tradition in the Renaissance
- Antony and Cleopatra : empire, globalization, and the clash of civilizations.
