Month: November 2023

In a sequel of sorts to Shakespeare’s Rome, the late Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World expands upon his earlier book published many decades earlier. Cantor’s first book, Shakespeare’s Rome, was borne out of his dissertation on Coriolanus entitled “The Rulerless City and the Citiless…

In an essential work of Shakespearean scholarship, the late Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire contrasts two of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies —Coriolanus with Antony and Cleopatra— in an effort to demonstrate Shakespeare’s teaching with respect to the rise of the Roman Republic and its eventual descent into an Empire….