Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity
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ancient history interpretation
Ancient Rome
andronicus
Author_Michelle Martindale
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classical
classical reception studies
classical sources in Shakespearean drama
De Constantia
Dead Men
dramatic adaptation theory
early modern literature
English Renaissance Drama
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Giles Farnaby
Golding's Translation
Golding’s Translation
greek
Green Sickness
Hercules Furens
homeric
Il Penseroso
iliad
Iliad IX
Latin influence
Merry Greek
Nestor's Speech
nestors
Nestor’s Speech
Nunc Est Bibendum
Ovid's Story
Ovidian influence
Ovid’s Story
Roman Plays
Shakespeare's Familiarity
Shakespeare’s Familiarity
speech
Stratford Grammar School
Summer Sweet
Superb
Tarquin's Ravishing Strides
Tarquin’s Ravishing Strides
titus
Tragic Villains
Verse
Verse Line
Vice Versa
warfare
world
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138161986
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
