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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare's plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman' in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, or Jonson's Sejanus often carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name....
Author
Series
Medieval cultures volume 26
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Clásicos universales Planeta volume 160
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
Español
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