The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical writings have, over many centuries, made an inescapable impact on the history of Western culture. He impressed figures as diverse as Augustine, Jerome, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Locke, Hume, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The significant debt owed by Barack Obama to Roman oratory was apparent during both terms of his presidency. Cicero's wide appeal means that of late he has become a popular subject also in classical reception studies. But there is a gap: no book has yet offered a history of the multiple ways in which the great orator shaped later dramatic art, especially during the early modern period. This volume is the first to discuss every instance in which Cicero has been the protagonist in a play, from Ben Jonson (1611) and Voltaire to Richard Cumberland and Henry Bliss (1847). The author places each oeuvre in the context of its first production while discussing the plot in relation to ancient sources. Her study will be read by scholars of classics and literary studies as well as historians of ideas and of the early modern age. | Reviving Cicero In Drama by Gesine Manuwald, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters