Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background
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Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background examines plays that the preface says may be regarded as a group chiefly because of their shared method of treatment rather than merely their use of the same authority and similar subjects. The analysis says that Shakespeare found hardly a suggestion or detail absent from Plutarch, although the material lay confused or isolated. The quoted account describes Brutus sending to ask Cassius to come to the city of Sardis.
The discussion considers the bitterness that Coriolanus’ popularity with the troops would cause his Volscian colleague. The analysis describes Brutus’ response to Cassius’ anticipation of defeat as a sudden response of the heart in defiance of philosophy.
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- Mungo William MacCallum
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- 448
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