Shakespeare's Roman Plays: The Function of Imagery in the Drama

A. C. Bradley analogy animal imagery Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appetite audience Aufidius battle blood body politic Brutus Cambridge Casca Cassius character Charmian citizens Cleo Cominius conflict conspiracy conspirators contrast Corio Coriolanus corn costume death disease dramatic effect Egypt Egyptian Elizabethan Elizabethan stage Enobarbus example figure final fire food and eating food imagery food images gods gown of humility Hamlet hyperbole I,ii II,iii III,i indicate Julius Caesar Kittredge L. C. Knights lanus Leo reprint Marcius means Menenius moral murder of Caesar nature noble North's Plutarch Octavius oration patra patricians perhaps plebeians Plutarch poetic Pompey portents present queen role Rome says scene seems sense serpent Shake Shakespeare's Imagery Shakespeare's play Shakespeare's Roman plays soldier soliloquy speaks speare's speech stage action storm style suggests suicide sword symbolic tells theater theme thou tion tone tragedy tragic Tribunes V,iii verbal Volscians Volumnia William Shakespeare words