Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 319 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511483769
Content:
Shakespeare and the Classics demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare's plays and in the structure of his imagination. Written by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this book investigates Shakespeare's classicism and shows how he used a variety of classical books to explore crucial areas of human experience such as love, politics, ethics and history. The book focuses on Shakespeare's favourite classical authors, especially Ovid, Virgil, Seneca, Plautus and Terence, and, in translation only, Plutarch. Attention is also paid to the humanist background and to Shakespeare's knowledge of Greek literature and culture. The final section, from the perspective of reception, examines how Shakespeare's classicism was seen and used by later writers. This accessible book offers a rounded and comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's classicism and will be a useful first port of call for students and others approaching the subject
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PART I. AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE ; Shakespeare and humanistic culture
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PART II. 'SMALL LATINE' ; OVID ; Petruchio is 'Kated': The taming of the shrew and Ovid
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Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in A midsummer night's dream
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Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom
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VIRGIL ; Shakespeare and Virgil
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PLAUTUS AND TERENCE ; Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered
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SENECA ; 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth
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'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2
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PART III. 'LESSE GREEK' ; 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony
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Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males
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GENERAL ; Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks
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GREEK ROMANCES ; Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still'
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GREEK TRAGEDY ; Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship
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PART IV. THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEAR'S CLASSICISM ; 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism'
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'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521823456
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521175012
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521823456
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Antike
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Literatur
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Latein
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Literatur
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Griechisch
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Literatur
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511483769
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