The Imperial ThemeFirst Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on the later Shakespearian tragedies of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Richard II. |
Contents
The Eroticism of Julius Caesar | 63 |
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An Essay on Lifethemes | 96 |
An Essay on Life | 125 |
An Essay on Corio | 154 |
The Transcendental Humanism of Antony | 199 |
An Essay on Antony | 263 |
Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra | 327 |
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