Michelle Martindale

Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

An Introductory Essay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although a third of his plays are set in the ancient world and he constantly used classical mythology, history, and ideas, Shakespeare received a simple grammar school education and did not have a scholar's knowledge of the classics.
The critical implications of this are the subject of Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity. Against a recent academic tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning, the authors investigate how he used his comparatively restricted knowledge to create, for example, an unusually convincing picture of Rome, and analyse, by presenting us with careful readings of specific passages, the styles Shakespeare employed under the influence of classical writers, especially Ovid, Seneca, and (in translation) Homer and Plutarch.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134848508
• Artikelnr.: 38245891

Autorenporträt

Charles Michelle Martindale

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Shakespeare's Ovid
Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Troy
Chapter 4 Shakespeare's Rome
Chapter 5 Shakespeare's Stoicism