Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity - Michelle Martindale

Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity

An Introductory Essay
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-16198-6 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Against a recent tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's classical learning, this study examines how the playwright used his relatively restricted knowledge to create an unusually convincing picture of Rome.
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.

Charles Michelle Martindale

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-16198-5 / 1138161985
ISBN-13 978-1-138-16198-6 / 9781138161986
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