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Book Reviving Cicero in Drama

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  • Author : Gesine Manuwald
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-10-30
  • ISBN : 1786725584
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Reviving Cicero in Drama written by Gesine Manuwald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine, Jerome, Petrarch, Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Locke, David Hume, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Despite his wide appeal, until now no study has yet offered a comprehensive overview of 'Cicero' as a character in stage plays in the early modern and modern periods. The first book of its kind to discuss Cicero's reception on stage, it includes works by Ben Jonson (1611, Catiline His Conspiracy), Voltaire (1752, Rome sauvée, ou Catilina), Richard Cumberland (1761, The Banishment of Cicero), Henry Bliss (1847, Cicero, A drama) and, most recently, Mike Poulton (Imperium, adapted from the novels of Robert Harris in 2017). Through a chapter-by-chapter account of each play in turn, every oeuvre is placed in its historical and cultural context; the plots are discussed in relation to the ancient sources. These analyses demonstrate how the presentation and assessment of the figure of Cicero develop over time and how this character is exploited for varying political statements. The wealth of material in this book is vital reading for scholars of Classics, drama and literary studies as well as historians of ideas and of the early modern age.

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  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
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  • ISBN : 3385046270
  • Pages : 454 pages

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Book The Roman History  from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth

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Book La foi de l   glise universelle d apr  s les saintes   critures

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Book A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts

Download or read book A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians

Download or read book The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians written by John Peabody Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europe against Revolution

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  • Author : Matthijs Lok
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 0198872151
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Europe against Revolution written by Matthijs Lok and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century. In the decades around 1800, the era of the French Revolution, counter-revolutionary authors from all over Europe defended European civilisation against the onslaught of nationalist revolutionaries, bent on the destruction of the existing order, or so they believed. In opposition to the new revolutionary world of universal and abstract principles, the counter-revolutionary publicists proclaimed the concept of a gradually developing European society and political order, founded on a set of historical and - ultimately divine - institutions that had guaranteed Europe's unique freedom, moderation, diversity, and progress since the fall of the Roman Empire. These counter-revolutionary Europeanists drew on the cosmopolitan Enlightenment and simultaneously criticized its alleged revolutionary legacy. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these ideas of European history and civilisation were rediscovered and adapted to new political contexts, shaping in manifold ways our contested idea of European history and memory until today.

Book The Edinburgh Review

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Book Rome is Fallen  A sermon  on Rev  xiv  8   etc

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Book Le Guide Musical

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  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 598 pages

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Book Catalogue de l histoire de la Grande Bretagne

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Book Biographie Universelle  Ancienne Et Moderne

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Book Ronsard   Du Bellay Versus B  ze

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Book Histoire de la th  ologie chr  tienne au si  cle apostolique

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