TY  - BOOK
TI  - Shakespeare and the classics
SN  - 0521823455
U1  - 822.33 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, U.K., New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Classicism
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Classical Literature
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - English Literature
KW  - Classical Influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I. AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE -- Shakespeare and humanistic culture / Colin Burrow ---- PART II. 'SMALL LATINE' -- OVID :- Petruchio is 'Kated': The taming of the shrew and Ovid / Vanda Zajko -- Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in A midsummer night's dream / A.B. Taylor -- Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom / Heather James -- VIRGIL :- Shakespeare and Virgil / Charles Martindale -- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE :- Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered / Wolfgang Riehle -- Shakespeare, Plautus, and the discovery of new comic space / Raphael Lyne -- SENECA :- 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth / Yves Peyre? -- 'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2 / Erica Sheen ---- PART III. 'LESSE GREEK' :- 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony / John Roe -- Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males / Gordon Braden -- GENERAL :-  Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks / A.D. Nuttall -- GREEK ROMANCES :- Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' / Stuart Gillespie -- GREEK TRAGEDY :- Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship / Michael Silk ---- PART IV. THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEAR'S CLASSICISM :- 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism' / David Hopkins -- 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism / Sarah Annes Brown
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