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Reviving Cicero in Drama - From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage (Hardcover)
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Reviving Cicero in Drama - From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage (Hardcover)
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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 sauvee, 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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