Reviving Cicero in Drama

From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage

AvGesine Manuwald

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine, Jerome, Petrarch, Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Locke, David Hume, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Despite his wide appeal, until now no study has yet offered a comprehensive overview of ‘Cicero’ as a character in stage plays in the early modern and modern periods.The first book of its kind to discuss Cicero's reception on stage, it includes works by Ben Jonson (1611, Catiline His Conspiracy), Voltaire (1752, Rome sauvée, ou Catilina), Richard Cumberland (1761, The Banishment of Cicero), Henry Bliss (1847, Cicero, A drama) and, most recently, Mike Poulton (Imperium, adapted from the novels of Robert Harris in 2017). Through a chapter-by-chapter account of each play in turn, every oeuvre is placed in its historical and cultural context; the plots are discussed in relation to the ancient sources. These analyses demonstrate how the presentation and assessment of the figure of Cicero develop over time and how this character is exploited for varying political statements. The wealth of material in this book is vital reading for scholars of Classics, drama and literary studies as well as historians of ideas and of the early modern age.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-30
Mått:138 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781788312967

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Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK. She is the author of Roman Drama: A Reader (2010), Roman Republican Theatre (2011) and Cicero (for the Understanding Classics series, I.B. Tauris, 2015), the editor of The Afterlife of Cicero (2016), and has produced editions and commentaries on speeches of Cicero.

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This book will be a boon to scholars of theater history, particularly the history of theater in Europe. Recommended.

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Preface and acknowledgements1 INTRODUCTION: creation of the character ‘Cicero’2 BASIS: Cicero’s life and works2.1 Key details and ancient sources2.2 Early modern editions and historical works3 CONTEXT: ‘Cicero’ as a character in literature and art4 ‘CICERO’ ON THE (THEATRE) STAGE4.1 Robert Garnier, Cornélie (1574)4.2 Stephen Gosson, Catiline’s Conspiracies (c. 1579)4.3 Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, Iulius redivivus (1585)4.4 Robert Wilson / Henry Chettle, Catiline’s Conspiracy (1598)4.5 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599)4.6 The Tragedie of Cæsar and Pompey or Cæsars Reuenge (1606/07)4.7 William Alexander, The Tragedy of Iulius Cæsar (1607)4.8 Everie Woman in Her Humor (1609)4.9 Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy (1611)4.10 Caspar Brülow, Caius Julius Caesar Tragoedia (1616)4.11 Cicero Triumphans (1619)4.12 Marten Frank Besteben, De ’t samensweringe Catalinae (1647)4.13 The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (1651)4.14 Lambert van den Bosch, L. Catilina (1669)4.15 Pier Jacopo Martello, Il M. Tullio Cicerone (c. 1713)4.16 Die Enthaubttung deß Weltberühmten Wohlredners Ciceronis (1724)4.17.a/b ‘Marcus Tullius Cicero’ (1732 / 1741)4.18 Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, Catilina (1742)4.19 M. T. Cicero, Pro Patria Exul (1748)4.20 Prosper Jolyot Crébillon, Catilina (1748)4.21 Catilina ambitionis victima (1749)4.22 Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Catilina (1749)4.23 Voltaire, Rome sauvée, ou Catilina (1752)4.24 Giovanni Battista Casti, Catilina (1752)4.25 Pietro Chiari, Marco Tullio Cicerone (1752)4.26 Prosper Jolyot Crébillon, Le Triumvirat ou La mort de Cicéron (1754)4.27 M. T. Cicero Exul Spontaneus (1755)4.28 M. T. Cicero Amore Reipublicae Exul Spontaneus (1761) 4.29 Richard Cumberland, The Banishment of Cicero (1761) 4.30 M. T. Cicero ab exilio redux (1763) 4.31 Johann Jakob Bodmer, Julius Caesar. Ein Trauerspiel (1763) 4.32 Johann Jakob Bodmer, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Ein Trauerspiel (1764)4.33 Karl Benjamin Stieff, Catilina (1782) 4.34 Vittorio Alfieri, Bruto secondo (1789)4.35 Karl August Pergler von Perglas, Catilina (1808)4.36 George Croly, Catiline (1822) 4.37 Christoph Kuffner, Catilina (1825)4.38 Pierre Jean-Baptiste Dalban, Catilina (1827) 4.39 Author of ‘The Indian Merchant’, Catiline (1833)4.40 John Edmund Reade, Catiline; or, The Roman Conspiracy (1839)4.41 C.E. Guichard, Catilina romantique (1844) 4.42 Henry Bliss, Cicero, A drama (1847) 4.43 Alexandre Dumas / Auguste Maquet, Catilina (1848) 4.44 Ferdinand Kürnberger, Catilina (1855) 4.45 Karl Schroeder, Die Verschwörung des Catilina (1855) 4.46 José María Díaz, Catilina (1856)4.47 Vítezslav Hálek, Sergius Catilina (1862) 4.48 Hermann Lingg, Catilina (1864) 4.49 Parmenio Bettòli, Catilina (1872/75) 4.50 Johann Pöhnl, Catilina (1877) 4.51 Vincenzo Molinari, Lucio Sergio Catilina (1878) 4.52 Francesco Paolo de Chiara, Catilina (1882) 4.53 Karl (August) Bleibtreu, Größenwahn: Catilina (1888) 4.54 Adolf Bartels, Catilina (1892)4.55 Carl Theodor Curti, Catilina (1892)4.56 Mariano Vittori, Lucio Sergio Catilina (1894) 4.57 Samuel Lublinski, Der Imperator (1901) 4.58 Alwyn Markolf, Catilina (1907) 4.59 André Lebey, Catilina (1922) 4.60 Upton Sinclair, Cicero. A Tragedy of Ancient Rome (1960)4.61 Guido Ammirata, Quattro assassini per una cerva (1972/73) 4.62 Helmut Böttiger, Cicero oder Ein Volk gibt sich auf (1990) 4.63 Robert Harris / Mike Poulton, Imperium (2017) 5 CONCLUSION: development of the character ‘Cicero’ BibliographyIndex