Shakespeare’s Roman tales are more relevant today than at any time in their four-hundred-year history. Titus Andronicus speaks to us like never before at a time when the universalistic order of the West has opened its borders to those from radically different cultures and societies; Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are as relevant as ever in an era riven by the deepest of ideological disagreements as to concentrations of power and gender roles; and the message of Coriolanus is no less urgent in an era of the deepest polarization between conservatives and progressives.
This fourth volume of Shakespeare Tales contains the Roman tales as retold in prose by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Harrison Morris, and Winston Stokes. Each tale is prefaced by a fresh and insightful introduction by Andrew Lynn.
