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Del Sapio Garbero, Maria,

Shakespeare's ruins and myth of Rome / Maria Del Sapio Garbero . - New York : Routledge, 2022. - xii, 388 p. ; 23 cm. - Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Starting with the debris of finis imperii: Titus Andronicus -- Lucrece's pictorial anatomy of ruin -- Anatomizing the body of a king: knowledge, conspiracy, and memory in Julius Caesar -- 'My memory is tired': Coriolanus's forgetful Humanism -- 'Caesar's wing': negotiating the myth of Rome in Cymbeline -- World and ruin in Antony and Cleopatra.

"This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare's relationship with Rome's authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the 'eternal' city as a ruinous scenario"--

9780367559106 9781032195421


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.


English literature--Classical influences.


Rome--In literature.
Rome--Antiquities.

PR3069.R6 / D45 2022

822.33 / D365