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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

In Our Time: Culture

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The Great Power of Rhetoric

Shakespeare is interested in this period of roman history for much the same reason that he is interested in the wars of the roses, because he sees a parallel to whata the historian lawrence stone would call the crisis of the aristocracy. In thes plays patrigre, are we seeing shakespeare seeing rome as centre of power, something from which the english can learn? And again, thers e shou not destroy rome absolute and that smilins she, i ats the mother of the nation idea, that is the political idea.

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