Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Rome" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 9 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (9)
- The Poetaster — by Ben Jonson
- Sejanus: His Fall — by Ben Jonson
- All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy — by John Dryden
- The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome — by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Titus Andronicus — by William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar — by William Shakespeare
- Antony and Cleopatra — by William Shakespeare
- Coriolanus — by William Shakespeare
- The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar — by William Shakespeare