John Fletchers Rome: Questioning the Classics Lovascio Domenico
John Fletchers Rome: Questioning the Classics Lovascio Domenico John Fletcher's Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher's engagement with classical antiquity. Unlike Shakespeare's or…
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John Fletchers Rome: Questioning the Classics Lovascio Domenico
John Fletcher's Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher's engagement with classical antiquity. Unlike Shakespeare's or Jonson's, however, Fletcher's Roman plays have seldom been the subject of critical discussion.Domenico Lovascio's ground-breaking study examines these plays as a group for the first time, thus identifying disorientation as the unifying principle of Fletcher's portrayal of imperial Rome. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess.
The book sheds new light on Fletcher's intellectual life, his vision of John Fletcher's Rome argues that Fletcher's dramatization of ancient Rome exudes a sense of detachment and scepticism as to the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics.