Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199684793
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 203x135x16 mm
- Weight 332 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity explains the nature and extent of Shakspeare's classical learning, exploring why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek'. It examines Shakespeare's relationship to classical texts and how this relationship changed in the course of his career.
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS
General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject.
This book explains that Shakespeare did not have 'small Latin and less Greek' as Ben Jonson claimed.
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows the range, extent and variety of Shakespeare's responses to classical antiquity. Individual chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Classical Comedy, Seneca, and Plutarch show how Shakespeare's understanding of and use of classical authors, and of the classical past more generally, changed and developed in the course of his career. An opening chapter shows the kind of classical learning he acquired through his education, and subsequent chapters provide stimulating introductions to a range of classical authors as well as to Shakespeare's responses to them. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows how Shakespeare's relationship to classical authors changed in response to contemporary events and to contemporary authors. Above all, it shows that Shakespeare's reading in classical literature informed more or less every aspect of his work.
Burrow's book has much to offer. He offers an excellent account of Elizabethan schooling and especially the rationale of its classical training, geared to teaching the student to write Latin, not just to read it--and to transfer those skills to writing English..there are dozens of illuminating details on various levels.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Learning from the Past
Virgil
Ovid
Roman Comedy
Seneca
Plutarch
Conclusion
Further Reading
