UID:
almahu_9947414983202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511483769 (ebook)
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Shakespeare and humanistic culture /
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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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Shakespeare and Virgil /
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Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered /
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'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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'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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Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks /
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Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' /
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Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship /
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'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:
Print version: ISBN 9780521823456
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483769
