Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar /
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing hi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
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Series: | Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Caesar: mighty yet
- Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual
- Antony: the fox knows many things
- Cassius: parallel lives.