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Hardcover The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Book

ISBN: 0521196566

ISBN13: 9780521196567

The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

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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...

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