Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings: The Real History Behind the Plays
Continuum, 2008. Paperback. A clean crisp well preserved 2008 Continuum softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. Item #392 William Shakespeare brings history to life. His plays take us from the Forum in Rome to the palaces of London and the battlefields of France. He dramatizes the personal and political conflicts that cost Julius Caesar his life, Marc Antony and Cleopatra an empire, and a succession of English kings their thrones.
ISBN: 9780826418807
Designed to give students a deeper understanding and a more enjoyable experience of the history plays, each chapter of Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings focuses on the period and lives portrayed in one of these dramas, and also provides a brief guide to available film and video versions. While focusing on the most important of Shakespeare's sources - the Greco-Roman historian Plutarch and the English histories of Raphael Holinshed - Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings also discusses other writers who helped inform Shakespeare's work, from Suetonius, author of The Twelve Caesars, to John Foxe, whose Book of Martyrs memorialized the struggles of English religious reformers.
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