Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare

Achillean Achilles action Antony and Cleopatra Antony's areté aspiration for excellence assertion audience behavior Bussy and Byron Bussy D'Ambois Bussy's Bussy's heroic Byron plays Byron's heroic Caesar casibus Chapman and Shakespeare Chapman's Bussy character chivalric Clermont conflict Conspiracy context Coriolanus Coriolanus's critics death delusive Desdemona divine dramatic dramatist Elizabethan English Essex ethical evocation exemplary final moments Fortune frailty George Chapman godlike grandeur heart Hector Herculean Hercules hero hero's heroic conception heroic idealism heroic image heroic love heroic passion heroic spirit heroic virtus heroism Homer honor human Iago Iago's identity Iliads individual king Loeb Classical Library love's lover martial nature neo-Platonic noble Othello Philotas political psychological quest rational Renaissance Roman Rome scene Shakespeare's Shakespearean Tragedy social consensus society soldier Sponde stance Stoic suggests symbolic Thomas Marc Parrott thou tion titanic tragic transcendent Troilus and Cressida Troy Ulysses unnatural valor values Volumnia warrior Wisedome wrath