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Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Garry Wills

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Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Title
Rome and rhetoric
Title remainder
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Statement of responsibility
Garry Wills
Title variation
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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. The author, focusing his attention on Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech. In four chapters, each devoted to one of the play's main characters, the author shows that Caesar, Brutus, Antony, and Cassius each has his own take on the rhetorical ornaments that Elizabethans learned in school. Shakespeare also makes Rome present and animate by casting his troupe of experienced players to make their strengths shine through the historical facts that Plutarch supplied him with. The result is that the Rome English-speaking people carry about in their minds is the Rome that Shakespeare created for them. And that is true, the author affirms, even for today's classical scholars with access to the original Roman sources
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DLC
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1934-
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Wills, Garry
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Caesar, Gajus Julius
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance
  • Rome
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance
  • Rome
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance
  • Rhétorique de la Renaissance
  • Rhetoric
  • Rome in literature
  • Literature
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Literature
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Rhetorik
  • Rhetorik
  • Rhetorik
  • Rom
  • Retorik
  • Rhetoric
  • Rome in literature
Label
Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Garry Wills
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-175) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Caesar: mighty yet -- Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual -- Antony: the fox knows many things -- Cassius: parallel lives
Control code
711045626
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
186 pages
Isbn
9780300188004
Lccn
2011017965
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)711045626
Label
Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Garry Wills
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-175) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Caesar: mighty yet -- Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual -- Antony: the fox knows many things -- Cassius: parallel lives
Control code
711045626
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
186 pages
Isbn
9780300188004
Lccn
2011017965
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
System control number
(OCoLC)711045626

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