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Illyria in Shakespeare's England
'Illyria in Shakespeare's England' studies the eastern Adriatic region known as 'Illyria' in five plays by Shakespeare and other early modern English writing. It examines the origins and features of past discourses on the area, expanding our knowledge of the ways in which England and other polities negotiated their position in the early modern world.
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Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat
Drawing on the new ways of reading and studying ancient and early medieval sources, this book explores the appearance of the Croat identity in early medieval Dalmatia.
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Twelfth night
Includes an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career, commentary on past productions, and a scene-by-scene analysis accompany Shakespeare's play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.
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Taken at the flood : the Roman conquest of Greece
The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and determined conquest of the land to whose art, philosophy, and culture the Romans owed so much. Rome found the eastern Mediterranean divided, in an unstable balance of power, between three great kingdoms - the three Hellenistic kingdoms that had survived and flourished after the wars of Alexander the Great's Successors: Macedon, Egypt, and Syria. Internal troubles took Egypt more or less out of the picture, but the other two were reduced by Rome. Having established itself, by its defeat of Carthage, as the sole superpower in the western Mediterranean, Rome then systematically went aboutdoing the same in the east, until the entire Mediterranean was under her control. Apart from the thrilling military action, the story of the Roman conquest of Greece is central to the story of Rome itself and the empire it created. As Robin Waterfield shows, the Romans developed a highly sophisticated method of dominance by remote control over the Greeks of the eastern Mediterranean - the cheap option of using authority and diplomacy to keep order rather than standing armies. And it is a story that raises a number of fascinating questions about Rome, her empire, and hercivilization. For instance, to what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy? What was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest? And what was the effect on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with an older Greekcivilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme?.
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Du même aux autres et de l’autre aux mêmes. Les Corinthiens sur les rives orientales de la mer Ionienne et du sud de l’Adriatique
« Du même aux autres et de l’autre aux mêmes. Les Corinthiens sur les rives orientales de la mer Ionienne et du sud de l’Adriatique, de la fondation de Corcyre à la première guerre de Macédoine »Appliqué aux sociétés nord-occidentales d’origine corinthienne, le mot « diaspora » a deux qualités principales : il décrit à la fois la mobilité coloniale qui conduit les Corinthiens et les Corcyréens à fonder plusieurs cités nouvelles, et pose le problème de l’identité culturelle de ces jeunes communautés, dont il s’agit de savoir si elles appartenaient à un réseau cohérent et organisé par Corinthe ou Corcyre. Ces communautés coloniales partagent-elles des institutions, une même culture, une identité commune ? Applied to the north-western societies of Corinthian origin, the word “diaspora” has two main qualities : it describes at the same time the colonial mobility which leads the Corinthians and the Corcyreans to establish several new cities, and raise the problem of the cultural identity of these young communities, about which it is a question of knowing if they belonged to a network coherent and organized by Corinth or Corcyra. Do these colonial communities share institutions, same culture, common identity ?
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“Was My Sister Drowned”: Voyaging While Female in Twelfth Night
Sea travel was both uncomfortable and hazardous in the late sixteenth century, and even more so for women. Shakespeare's shipwrecked twins in Twelfth Night (1602) grace the stage at a time when sea travel for women was both uncommon and fraught with danger. Seafaring women faced captivity, slavery, and enforced marriage as passengers or the rare sailor aboard captured vessels, and this danger served to actively discourage sea travel for women. Viola, however, is not the first woman literary traveler to shipwreck on the shores of Illyria. Harmonia, wife of Cadmus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, arrives first. These female travelers' mobility and metamorphosis within their respective tales resist the anticipated resolutions of romance and, in Twelfth Night, festival. Like Harmonia, Viola's Illyrian shipwreck transforms her gender, her shape, and ultimately her identity. Ancient and early modern knowledge of Illyria, the geographic and cultural region, also underscores thematic emphasis on travel and mobility within Twelfth Night. The shipwreck, the cross-dressing, and the lover's complaints all frame Viola as a character from romance. However, by 1602, the maritime might of the English and the rapidly growing seafaring infrastructure also infuse this text. Viola the page-errant is also the early modern woman voyager, a less explored aspect of Viola's crisis of identity on the shores of Illyria.
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Nightis one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue-deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks-as everyone is drawn into the hilarious confusion.
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