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Author
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Date published
2011
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Subject
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
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Class
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ISBN
9780521196567 (hbk.), 0521196566 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
298 p. ; 23 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliography and index. Summary, etc: Through a comparative analysis of the Roman plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and including detailed discussion of the classical historians Livy, Tacitus, and Plutarch, this study examines the uses of Roman history - 'the myth of Rome' - in Shakespeare's age.