Shakespeare's Tales of Two Cities: London and Rome

The imaginative space of Rome as it appears in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays and especially in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra mirrors the London restless scenery between the end of the XVI and the beginning of the XVII century. Geographical locations such as the rivers Thames, Tiber, Nile, confirmed to the London audiences that the historical distance separating their own experience from the past was bridged by the illusory powers of the stage performance.