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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare readers will further be able to understand and appreciate the text of this play with the help of explanatory footnotes on the language and expressions used and a history of Shakespearean theater and writing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered, legendary, and nonetheless complicated figures from the history of Rome, Julius Caesar was a master politician and military genius. In this book, Caesar's life and impressive accomplishments are related within the historical context of the Roman Republic, already an incredible power by his time, transforming into an empire. It explores Caesar's role in this transformation, and his triumphs in war, illuminating the path of...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Español
Description
Novela de amor sobre fondo historico, No digas que fue un sueno arranca de una situacion de intenso dramatismo. Una mujer egregia llora su luto de amor en una barca que remonta el Nilo. Es la reina Cleopatra, que ha sido abandonada por su amante, el romano Marco Antonio. En el corazon de ambos se debaten todos los conflictos del amor y la pasion, que culminaran con nuevos encuentros, encaminados a un destino fatal.
A saga of love, passion, political...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot and demagogue, and treat his murder as the outcome of a personal feud or constitutional struggle, devoid of social content. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, the author...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's account of the Roman general Julius Caesar's murder by his friend Brutus is a meditation on duty.
Hamlet: Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
Macbeth: Dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
8) Nine plays
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Co
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
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Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1987, ©1985
Language
English
Description
"A portrait, a history and a superb guide book - this beautifully written, informative study captures the seductive beauty and the many-layered past of the Eternal City. From its quasi-mythical origins, through the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy, Christopher Hibbert details the turbulent and dramatic...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Swearing to bring him down, Caesar's enemies masquerade as friends and loyal supporters while they plot to destroy him"--Inside front cover.
Author
Series
Emperor series volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething...
Author
Series
Emperor series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With prodigious imagination and a commanding knowledge of the history of ancient Rome, Conn Iggulden delivers an exhilarating reading experience in the pages of his Emperor series. Now, in the third and most action-packed Emperor novel to date, we are transported to Caesar's time once more as he and Marcus Brutus lead their legions far beyond the gates of Rome. But the pursuit of glory abroad will store up trouble for them at home, as Caesar's political...
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