UID:
almahu_9949384271802882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781317041672
,
1317041674
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9781315613550
,
1315613557
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9781317041689
,
1317041682
,
9781317041665
,
1317041666
,
9781472417404
,
1472417402
Series Statement:
ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION.
Content:
"In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare's relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare's specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism's likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; and also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities rate Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth century. Second--and no less central--is the idea of classics as such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most in their era, justifies their protection against historical and cultural change. The volume's organizing insight is that as Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense, his work's reception has more and more come to resemble that of classics in the first sense--of ancient texts subject to labored critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts' growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness."--Page 4 of cover.
Note:
1. Shakespeare's books / Michael Ursell and Melissa Yinger -- 2. A classical education / William P. Weaver -- 3. Shakespeare and English translations of the classics / Liz Oakley-Brown -- 4. Genre : comedy and tragedy / Tanya Pollard -- 5. The sonnets and narrative poems : Shakespeare, Ovid, reversal, and surprise / Pamela Royston Macfie -- 6. Shakespeare's grammar : Latin, literacy, and the vernacular / Leah Whittington -- 7. Rhetoric and dialectic / Nick Moschovakis -- 8. History and geography / Jane Grogan -- 9. Shakespeare and myth / Sarah Annes Brown -- 10. Shakespeare and classical cosmology / Jean E. Feerick -- 11. Politics / Amelia Zurcher -- 12. Classical drama before Shakespeare : from imitatio to "mimic men" / Robert Hornback -- 13. Classicism on the English stage during Shakespeare's youth and maturity : popularizing classical learning / Jeanne H. McCarthy -- 14. Popular classical drama : the case of Heywood's Ages / Mark Bayer -- 15. Theater in theory : Shakespeare, sacrifice, and classical antiquity / Jennifer Waldron -- 16. Later classicism in the drama : how Shakespeare's ghosts came to haunt the eighteenth century / Michael Chemers -- 17. Shakespeare and Asian classics : encounters in India / Poonam Trivedi -- 18. Shakespeare and "the classics" in the classroom : ten resources -- 19. Human value : ethics, antiquity, misanthropy / James Kearney -- 20. What is a classic? Is Shakespeare a classic? / Sean Keilen.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472417404
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315613550.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315613550
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