Chernaik presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare's Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger Introduction: a Roman thought -- Roman historians and the myth of Rome -- The wronged Lucretia...
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Chernaik presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare's Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger 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.
