In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'. Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus *...
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In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'. Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shake
ROMANSHAKESPEARE Warriors, Wounds, and Women; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Roman Virtue on English Stages; 2 The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity in Lucrece; 3 The Daughter's Seduction in Titus Andronicus, or, Writing is the Best Revenge; 4 Mettle and Melting Spirits in Julius Caesar; 5 Antony's Wound; 6 Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Coriolanus; Postscript: Cymbeline: Paying Tribute to Rome; Bibliography; Index
