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... Rome , but ' honour ' itself , to be a veritable superman of a soldier . Both Coriolanus and Volumnia sin through pride and excessive concen- tration on an ambition which , if allowed to become an end in itself , proves suicidal ...
... Rome , but ' honour ' itself , to be a veritable superman of a soldier . Both Coriolanus and Volumnia sin through pride and excessive concen- tration on an ambition which , if allowed to become an end in itself , proves suicidal ...
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... Rome and Britain , we must , for a moment , return our thoughts to Rome and all that it signified to Shakespeare . Ancient Rome loomed vaster in Shakespeare's national imagina- tion than it does in ours . If we turn to any Elizabethan ...
... Rome and Britain , we must , for a moment , return our thoughts to Rome and all that it signified to Shakespeare . Ancient Rome loomed vaster in Shakespeare's national imagina- tion than it does in ours . If we turn to any Elizabethan ...
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... Rome and England are all but spiritually identical . Now Cymbeline , which , we must remember , is one of Shakespeare's latest plays , carefully dramatises a union of Rome and Britain . It is a complicated work with many strands ...
... Rome and England are all but spiritually identical . Now Cymbeline , which , we must remember , is one of Shakespeare's latest plays , carefully dramatises a union of Rome and Britain . It is a complicated work with many strands ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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