Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

by Garry Wills

Book Overview

A many-faceted examination of how Shakespeare brought Rome alive for his readers through a masterful manipulation of ancient rhetoric

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300188005
• ISBN13: 9780300188004
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"