Misremembering Ciceronian Rome in Ben Jonson’s Catiline
Ben Jonson’s 1611 Catiline His Conspiracy draws closely on classical sources for the events of the conspiracy and Cicero’s reaction to it. And yet, this essay argues, Jonson’s play twists what his contemporaries would have known about late Republican Rome by putting these familiar events in a differ...
| Published in: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2024-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/1718/13086 |