Roman Shakespeare Warriors, Wounds and Women

Coppélia Kahn, "Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0415054516, 0415054508 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb
In the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind ‘Roman virtue’.

Plays featured include:
* Titus Andronicus
* Julius Caesar
* Antony and Cleopatra
* Coriolanus
* Cymbeline
Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective.
Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.