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xv, 666 p. 23 cm. |
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Introduction: Roman plays in the sixteenth century. Shakespeare's treatment of history. Ancestry of Shakespeare's Roman plays.--Julius Caesar.--Antony and Cleopatra.--Coriolanus.--Appendices: Nearest parallels between Garnier's Cornelie in the French and English versions and Julius Caesar. The verbal relations of the various versions of Plutarch, illustrated by means of Volumnia's speech. Shakespeare's alleged indebtedness to Appian in Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's loans from Appian in Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra's One word. The "inexplicable" passage in Coriolanus.--Index. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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