Plan of the lecture english literature of the XVII century



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LECTURE 4

Catiline
organizes a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. The conspirators, among 
them the rash Cethegus and the outcast senators Lentulus and Curius, gather at 
Catiline’s home. Catiline and his wife pander to the weaknesses of each and skillfully 


KHILOLA RAKHIMOVA, senior teacher, URSU 

manipulate them without allowing them to realize that they are puppets. The 
conspirators conclude their meeting with a gruesome sacrament and pledge their faith 
by drinking the blood of a murdered slave. 
The first step in their plan is to have Catiline elected as one of the two consuls. 
Success seems probable after four of the candidates withdraw in favor of Catiline. That 
leaves only two competitors in the race: Antonius, impecunious and lukewarm, and 
Cicero, a new man but a dangerous antagonist. A Chorus of Roman citizens gathers 
and discusses the uncertainty of the survival of great national powers, which often seem 
to carry in themselves seeds of their destruction: Luxuries and vices soften nations and 
leave them easy prey to their own malcontents or to alien invaders. 
Fulvia, the profligate wife of an elderly fool, numbers among her lovers the 
conspirator Curius and, on a very casual basis, Julius Caesar. As she is interested in 
wealth, not romance, she forbids her servants to admit the down-at-heels Curius on 
future visits. She is being readied for her social day when Sempronia visits her, a 
politician well past the bloom of youth. Sempronia is an eager supporter of the patrician 
Catiline and a scorner of “that talker, Cicero,” who presumes to be more learned and 
eloquent than the nobility. When Curius arrives to interrupt their gossip, Sempronia 
overrides Fulvia’s objections, ushers him in, and makes great play of leaving the lovers 
alone. Fulvia’s reception of Curius is so hostile that he becomes enraged and drops 
threats and hints of future greatness and power. Fulvia immediately shifts to the tactics 
of Delilah and wheedles information about the conspiracy from him. 

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