Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay

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Routledge, 2005 M07 15 - 240 páginas
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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INTRODUCTION
1
SHAKESPEARES OVID
45
SHAKESPEARES TROY
91
SHAKESPEARES ROME
121
SHAKESPEARES STOICISM
165
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Charles Michelle Martindale

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