Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities) - Hardcover

Wills, Garry

 
9780300152180: Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300152183 ISBN 13: 9780300152180
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

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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.

In four chapters, devoted to four of the play’s main characters, Wills shows how Caesar, Brutus, Antony, and Cassius each has his own take on the rhetorical ornaments that Elizabethans learned in school. 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Garry Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Wills is a frequent contributor to theNew York Review of Books and other publications.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300152183
ISBN 13 
9780300152180
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Anzahl der Seiten
186
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