@article{436601,
      recid = {436601},
      author = {Wills, Garry,},
      title = {Rome and rhetoric Shakespeare's Julius Caesar /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven, CT :},
      pages = {1 online resource (186 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      note = {"... first ... given by Garry Wills at Bard College in  2009. The lectures have been revised for publication."},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436601},
}