Julius Caesar in Western CultureMaria Wyke John Wiley & Sons, 15/04/2008 - 384 من الصفحات This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to the twenty-first century.
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... Brutus (Caesar's illegitimate son) plays with his mother Servilia (still from Guazzoni's Cajus Julius Caesar [1914]) Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar (still from Guazzoni's Cajus Julius Caesar [1914]) Caesar is first approached by Brutus ...
... Brutus (Caesar's illegitimate son) plays with his mother Servilia (still from Guazzoni's Cajus Julius Caesar [1914]) Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar (still from Guazzoni's Cajus Julius Caesar [1914]) Caesar is first approached by Brutus ...
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... Brutus, the first Brutus who overthrew the first tyrant: this is a debt that has now come down to Marcus. No audience at the beginning of the twenty-first century could avoid the contemporary resonance, as George W. Bush turned again to ...
... Brutus, the first Brutus who overthrew the first tyrant: this is a debt that has now come down to Marcus. No audience at the beginning of the twenty-first century could avoid the contemporary resonance, as George W. Bush turned again to ...
الصفحة 5
... Brutus was more right than wrong.2 It is even clearer, though, that this play has always had a way of being highly relevant to the present, whenever the present has happened to be. There was the 1937 production of Orson Welles, with ...
... Brutus was more right than wrong.2 It is even clearer, though, that this play has always had a way of being highly relevant to the present, whenever the present has happened to be. There was the 1937 production of Orson Welles, with ...
الصفحة 6
... Brutus: they were never performed. And we can find several cases around that time when disaffected authors took their censored plays and performed them in Italy.4 There were other ways of dealing with the delicacy of regicide. Handel's ...
... Brutus: they were never performed. And we can find several cases around that time when disaffected authors took their censored plays and performed them in Italy.4 There were other ways of dealing with the delicacy of regicide. Handel's ...
الصفحة 7
... Brutus story or as a Caesar story. As a Brutus story, concentration on the death naturally becomes an issue of right and wrong: is this really the right thing to do? One can figure that in terms of regicide and its justifications: we ...
... Brutus story or as a Caesar story. As a Brutus story, concentration on the death naturally becomes an issue of right and wrong: is this really the right thing to do? One can figure that in terms of regicide and its justifications: we ...
المحتوى
Part II Literary Characterization | 27 |
Part III The City of Rome | 83 |
Part IV Statecraft and Nationalism | 129 |
Part V Theatrical Performance | 203 |
Part VI Warfare and Revolution | 267 |
Afterword | 303 |
Bibliography | 324 |
Index | 352 |
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