Shakespeare and Rome

by Graham Holderness

In the first full length study to relate Shakespeare's Roman works to a longer history of the city of Rome, author Graham Holderness reads Shakespeare's Roman works"Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus"via a double perspective, the ancient and the modern. He argues that for Shakespeare, Rome was not simply the republic and empire of antiquity, but a contemporary place that possessed its own meanings, retained its own...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409410153
• ISBN13: 9781409410157
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages