Rome and rhetoric [electronic resource] : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Garry Wills.
Wills, Garry, 1934-
2011
PR2808 .W58 2011eb
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Title Rome and rhetoric [electronic resource] : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Garry Wills.
Author Wills, Garry, 1934-
ISBN 9780300178494 (electronic book)
9780300152180
0300152183
Imprint New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (186 p.)
Call Number PR2808 .W58 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
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.
Note "... first ... given by Garry Wills at Bard College in 2009. The lectures have been revised for publication."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Anthony Hecht lectures in the humanities.
Available in Other Form Rome and rhetoric.
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