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John Fletcher's Rome : questioning the classics / Domenico Lovascio.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR651 .L68 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovascio, Domenico, author.
- Series:
- Revels plays companion library
- The Revels plays companion library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fletcher, John, 1579-1625--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fletcher, John.
- Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Fletcher's classical settings
- Ancient Rome and early modern England
- The Roman plays of John Fletcher
- The `Fletcher canon'
- The contents of this book
- 1. `Take Your Lily / And Get Your Part Ready': Fletcher And The Classics
- 2. `I Am No Roman, / Nor What I Am Do I Know': Fletcher's Roman Plays as Trauerspiele
- 3. `Had Lucrece E'Er Been Thought Of But For Tarquin?' The Inadequacy of Roman Female Exempla
- 4. `To Do Thus / I Learned Of Thee': Shakespeare's Exemplary Roman Plays.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1526157381
- 9781526157386
- OCLC:
- 1276932779
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