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Shakespeare and Roman History

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About the lecture

In this module we ask the question: Why did Shakespeare write about Roman history? What was it about this two-thousand year old civilization that interested him and his audience?

About the lecturer

Born in Bristol, and educated at Oxford and St Louis, Dr John Lennard has taught English, American, and Commonwealth Literature in Cambridge, London, and Jamaica over more than twenty years. He has written two widely used textbooks (on poetry and drama) and monographs on Shakespeare, Paul Scott, Nabokov, and Faulkner, as well as two collections of essays on contemporary genre writers in crime, science fiction and fantasy, and romance. Enthusiastic, discursive, widely knowledgeable, and a demon for punctuation (on which he has also published extensively), he has been a popular Summer School Course Leader and lecturer for the Institute of Continuing Education since 1992.

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Lennard, J. (2018, August 15). Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare and Roman History [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/options/shakespeare-antony-and-cleopatra?auth=0&lesson=345&option=6468&type=lesson

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Lennard, J. "Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare and Roman History." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 15 Aug 2018, https://massolit.io/options/shakespeare-antony-and-cleopatra?auth=0&lesson=345&option=6468&type=lesson