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Jul 20, 2011 16:22

The last academic writing I did was on Shakespeare's use and treatment of violence in his Roman plays. The bard was able to juxtapose violence with rhetoric very effectively in a number of situations. The two scenes which I found most effective were the assassination of Julius Caesar and the duel between Coriolanus and Aufidious. In both scenes, ( Read more... )

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nishatalitha July 21 2011, 10:06:21 UTC
I have to say, I have never really thought of violence as being the intial/primary form of communication in quite that way before. It makes sense.

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