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The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Warren Chernaik.

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.