Shakespeare and the Classics
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- Charles Martindale, University of Bristol
- A. B. Taylor
- Date Published: March 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521175012
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Compiled by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this study investigates Shakespeare's classicism and demonstrates how he used a variety of classical books to explore such crucial areas of human experience as love, politics, ethics, and history. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare's classicism that will also serve as a useful introduction for students and others approaching the subject for the first time.
Read more- Attractively written and the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available
- Sixteen contributors from the UK, the USA and Europe
- Extended coverage of Shakespeare's 'less Greek' as well as his 'small Latin'
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"This enriching book furnishes foundational knowledge that Shakespeare students must know. It belongs in every library's core Shakespeare holdings. Essential."
-ChoiceSee more reviews"The volume as a whole is superbly innovative and serves as an encouraging call to other scholars--both classical and Shakespearean--to continue the work it has so auspiciously begun."
-Joanna A. Giuttari, Renaissance Quarterly"If you think that a book called Shakespeare and the Classics cannot be original or challenging, you are wrong. Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor edit essays by various scholars, some established, some just starting out, that will set you to rethinking Seneca, Plutarch, Plautus, and others on whom Shakespeare relied...Stimulating."
-Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance"This volume is a welcome addition to the Shakespearian shelf."
-Dana F. Sutton, The University of California, Irvine, The Classical Bulletin"Charles Martindale and A. B. Taylor's new collection of essays on Shakespeare and the Classics is a welcome contribution to this new wave of scholarship by a group of critics well-known in the field...The essays...help capture the truly original characteristic of Shakespeare's imagination as it interacts with the past that nourished it. The tradition that emerges through these essays is itself a living and growing force, a conversation that continues today."
-Maggie Kilgour, Department of English, McGill University, International Journal of the Classic TraditionCustomer reviews
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521175012
- length: 334 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. An Initial Perspective:
1. Shakespeare and humanistic culture Colin Burrow
Part II. 'Small Latine':
2. 'Petruchio is 'Kated'': The Taming of the Shrew and Ovid Vanda Zajko
3. Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in A Midsummer Night's Dream A. B. Taylor
4. Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom Heather James
5. Shakespeare and Virgil Charles Martindale
6. Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered Wolfgang Riehle
7. Shakespeare, Plautus, and the discovery of new comic space Raphael Lyne
8. 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth Yves Peyre
9. 'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2 Erica Sheen
Part III. 'Lesse Greeke':
10. 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony John Roe
11. Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males Gordon Braden
12. Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks A. D. Nuttall
13. Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' Stuart Gillespie
14. Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship Michael Silk
Part IV. The Reception of Shakespeare's Classicism:
15. 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'Neoclassicism' David Hopkins
16. 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism Sarah Brown.
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