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... Caesar gives us Shakespeare's idea of classicism . It does not cohere with Ben Jonson's more academic idea , and he was critical of it ; but Julius Caesar is alive and thrilling , where Ben's Sejanus and even Catiline are really dead ...
... Caesar gives us Shakespeare's idea of classicism . It does not cohere with Ben Jonson's more academic idea , and he was critical of it ; but Julius Caesar is alive and thrilling , where Ben's Sejanus and even Catiline are really dead ...
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... Caesar : he must have been giving thought to style at that time . No less classical is the conception of Caesar's ghost ( it is interesting that the ghost in Hamlet played a similarly decisive role , but that is a Gothic ghost , not a ...
... Caesar : he must have been giving thought to style at that time . No less classical is the conception of Caesar's ghost ( it is interesting that the ghost in Hamlet played a similarly decisive role , but that is a Gothic ghost , not a ...
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... Caesar and again in Coriolanus , where in both the citizens of Rome form practically a character in the action , appropriately for its history . In the first scene the people are out in the streets to celebrate Caesar's victory over ...
... Caesar and again in Coriolanus , where in both the citizens of Rome form practically a character in the action , appropriately for its history . In the first scene the people are out in the streets to celebrate Caesar's victory over ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
Shakespeares Education I | 11 |
Shakespeare and the Classics | 14 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Shakespearean Scholarship: A Guide for Actors and Students Leslie O'Dell No preview available - 2002 |