University of Virginia professor Paul Cantor, curator of the Shakespeare and Politics website (thegreatthinker...) in the second of three lectures on Antony and Cleopatra.
you prolly dont care but if you're bored like me during the covid times you can watch all the latest movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my brother during the lockdown xD
there is something truly enjoyable about learning from someone who you can visibly see shares your passion for the content -- great delivery thank you !!
Assuming the accepted chronological order, Antony and Cleopatra, immediately followed by Coriolanus, written in more or less final formats some 8-10 years after Julius Caesar, makes me curious as to which political model Shakespeare admired the most. I would venture that, given the Elizabethan era in which he was immersed, his preference might be the Early Roman period, circa 494 B.C.E. [First Sedition], given England's turbulent previous century of foreign wars [Hundred Year's War] and civil strife [War of the Roses]. Caius Marcius, regardless of his unswerving ideals, and even the Patricians, in possessing more or less similar convictions, would have been better equipped to quell these fires with an eye to the stability of England on both the national and international level.
I agree that learning how to spin is an important and probably threshold political skill. Shakespeare, firmly within the public domain, is ideal for spinning. A purist blanches at teaching history through the reading of a playwright.
Thanks for your insights. It’s a much better handle on Shakespeare than the literary critical approach.
you prolly dont care but if you're bored like me during the covid times you can watch all the latest movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my brother during the lockdown xD
@Easton Francisco Definitely, have been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself =)
Wouldn't surprise me if CleoPATra was a bloke
there is something truly enjoyable about learning from someone who you can visibly see shares your passion for the content -- great delivery thank you !!
Assuming the accepted chronological order, Antony and Cleopatra, immediately followed by Coriolanus, written in more or less final formats some 8-10 years after Julius Caesar, makes me curious as to which political model Shakespeare admired the most. I would venture that, given the Elizabethan era in which he was immersed, his preference might be the Early Roman period, circa 494 B.C.E. [First Sedition], given England's turbulent previous century of foreign wars [Hundred Year's War] and civil strife [War of the Roses]. Caius Marcius, regardless of his unswerving ideals, and even the Patricians, in possessing more or less similar convictions, would have been better equipped to quell these fires with an eye to the stability of England on both the national and international level.
Why assume Shakespeare is limited by the political disputes of his own time?
Nobody else great enough to have written either play? Not even John Milton?..
Great stuff
Nice explanation ❤
Thank you!
dense and rich, so delicious🤤
Sharif don't like it!
Rock the casbah!
Rock the casbah!
Cleopatra!
Comin' at ya!
Bring back Elizabeth Taylor!
I bet she banged like a tornado!
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54:26 lol
I agree that learning how to spin is an important and probably threshold political skill. Shakespeare, firmly within the public domain, is ideal for spinning. A purist blanches at teaching history through the reading of a playwright.
Shakespeare was a playwright he was not an historian
If Shakespeare understood the Egyptianization of Rome, one might ask how. From reading? from visiting? That comment is just pure spin.
The same way anyone would from 1500 years later by reading the contemporary histories
Fascinating in itself. But my God, professor. Take an acting class. Or at least slow down and savor the text!