Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar /

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Author / Creator:Wills, Garry, 1934- author.
Imprint:New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (186 pages)
Language:English
Series:The Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities
Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121526
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ISBN:9780300178494
0300178492
9780300152180
0300152183
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. Garry Wills, focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech. 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 even true, Wills affirms, for today's classical scholars with access to the original Roman sources.--From publisher description.
Other form:Print version: Wills, Garry, 1934- Rome and rhetoric. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300152180

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