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Shakespeare's Roman Plays: Historical Tragedies and Insurrection Dramas

Explore the captivating world of Shakespeare's Roman plays, including Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Titus Andronicus. These historical tragedies and insurrection dramas depict the political intrigue, power struggles, and fierce battles of ancient Rome. Discover the complexities of characters and the universal themes that still resonate today.

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Shakespeare's Roman Plays: Historical Tragedies and Insurrection Dramas

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  1. But pardon, gentles all,The flat unraised spirits that hath daredOn this unworthy scaffold to bring forthSo great an object: can this cockpit holdThe vasty fields of France? or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?O pardon! since a crooked figure mayAttest in little place a million;And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. (Henry V, prologue)

  2. Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. Enter Martius, cursing. (Act 1, scene 4)

  3. Leave out the insurrection wholly and the cause thereof, and begin with Sir Thomas More at the Mayor's sessions, with a report afterwards of his good service done being Sheriff of London upon a mutiny against the Lombards – only by a short report, and not otherwise, at your own perils. E. Tilney

  4. Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. (Act 1, scene 1)

  5. ‘Roman’ Plays, 1574-1607 1574 Quintus Fabius – Anonymous 1577 MuciusScaevola – Anonymous 1578 Catiline’s Conspiracies – Stephen Gosson 1580 Scipio Africanus – Anonymous 1581 Caesar and Pompey – Anonymous 1588? The Wounds of Civil War – Thomas Lodge 1588 Sylla Dictator – Anonymous 1592 Titus and Vespasian – Anonymous 1593? Caesar’s Revenge – Anonymous 1593 Titus Andronicus – Shakespeare 1594 Caesar and Pompey, part 1 – Anonymous 1594-1595 Pompey the Great His Fair Cornelia’s Tragedy – Thomas Kyd 1595 Caesar and Pompey, part 2 – Anonymous 1596 Julian the Apostate – Anonymous 1598 Catiline’s Conspiracy – Robert Wilson and Henry Chettle 1599 Diocletian – Thomas Dekker? Constantine – Anonymous Julius Caesar – Shakespeare 1601 Hannibal and Scipio – Richard Hathawayeand William Rankins Poetaster – Ben Jonson 1602 Caesar’s Fall, or The Two Shapes – Dekker, Drayton, Middleton, et al. 1603-1604 Sejanus His Fall – Ben Jonson

  6. ‘Roman’ Plays, 1574-1607 1574 Quintus Fabius – Anonymous 1577 Mucius Scaevola – Anonymous 1580 Scipio Africanus – Anonymous 1601 Hannibal and Scipio – Richard Hathawaye and William Rankins

  7. Albrecht Dürer, War in Heaven, 1498

  8. Lucas Cranach, War in Heaven, 1534

  9. Enter Coriolanus in a gown of humility. (Act 2, scene 3)

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