political climate provides a venue for these directors to address domestic socio-political topics in their own unique ways. The theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare's Roman plays, in particular, best serve this purpose as they are set in Rome (not in Iran
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Titus and Coriolanus in Tehran
Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Iran's Politics
Mohammadreza Hassanzadeh Javanian
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Daniel Gallimore
‘divine talk’ or ‘talk about the gods’ (even ‘talk with the gods’). None of Shakespeare's Roman plays are in that sense mythological dramas, although they can – as narrated by Shakespeare – be said to share with ‘myth’ a considerable historical distance
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Graham Holderness
Shakespeare's interest in ancient Rome spans the whole of his dramatic career, from Titus Andronicus to Cymbeline , while Roman history and Latin culture permeate the whole of his work, well beyond the explicitly ‘Roman’ plays and poems
‘Our Troy, our Rome’
Classical Intertextuality in Titus Andronicus
Graham Holderness
classification as one of Shakespeare's bona fide ‘Roman’ plays. But the Rome of Titus is quite different from the historicist dramatisations of Rome in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. To start with, by general critical consensus, it is relatively
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Franziska Quabeck
Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare’s Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays (London: Routledge, 1988), 87. 20 See Hamlet , ed. Harold Jenkins. The Arden Shakespeare Second Series (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982), 346n60 and Hamlet , ed
Ian Ward
Roman Play’, Shakespeare Quarterly 31 no.1 (1980) 31–33, suggesting that whilst the setting is primarily in Britain, ‘the presence of Rome, literal and spiritual, is pervasive’. Bergeron reads the play as an allegory of Augustus's extended family. 13
Sine Dolore
Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at War
Daniel Derrin
, Shakespeare’s Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays (London: Routledge, 1988), 85. 24 E. M. W. Tillyard, Shakespeare’s History Plays (1944; rpt. London: Chatto and Windus, 1948), 265. 25 Franziska Quabeck, Just and Unjust Wars in
Shakespeare and War
Honour at the Stake
Patrick Gray
History , xix. 45 Axel Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts , trans. Joel Anderson (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995). 46 For more detailed analysis of doomed attempts at autonomy in Shakespeare’s Roman plays, see
Maryamossadat Mousavi and Pyeaam Abbasi
This study explicates, in what follows, how a fresh and deeper understanding of Shakespeare's Roman play Coriolanus (c. 1608) can be acquired by employing the core theoretical concepts of existential semiotics. The article argues that the