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Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome

Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome

Holderness, Graham

Paperback

Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1032578157
ISBN13: 9781032578156
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 16 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This new examination of Shakespeare's four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare's dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place:

  • the places from which Shakespeare initiated his imaginative reconstructions, where plays are written and performed
  • the places he constructed within the plays, the places the plays imagine and recreate, together with the places from which he derived them
  • the places within which we as readers and spectators experience those creations, where such plays are read, viewed and critically analysed.

Alongside this analysis the book explores contemporary critical debates and the uses of place and space in selected modern adaptations - the Taviani brothers' Italian film Caesar Must Die, Julie Taylor's film Titus, John Osborne's play A Place Calling Itself Rome and Ahmed Shawqi's Arabic Death of Cleopatra.

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