The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / by Chernaik, Warren L.

Table of Contents: “…Roman historians and the myth of Rome -- The wronged Lucretia 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.…”

The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / by Chernaik, Warren L.

Table of Contents: “…Roman historians and the myth of Rome -- The wronged Lucretia 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.…”
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The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / by Chernaik, Warren L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a Roman thought -- Roman historians and the myth of Rome -- The wronged Lucretia 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 republican tradition.…”
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