Shakespeare and the classics / / edited by Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784443103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14622-4; 1-280-54086-9; 0-511-21462-6; 0-511-21641-6; 0-511-21104-X; 0-511-31523-6; 0-511-48376-7; 0-511-21281-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 822.3/3
• Soggetti: Classicism - England - History - 16th century; Classical literature - Appreciation - England; English literature - Classical influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-310) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Shakespeare and the Classics demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare's plays and in the structure of his imagination. Written by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this book investigates Shakespeare's classicism and shows how he used a variety of classical books to explore crucial areas of human experience such as love, politics, ethics and history. The book focuses on Shakespeare's favourite classical authors, especially Ovid, Virgil, Seneca, Plautus and Terence, and, in translation only, Plutarch. Attention is also paid to the humanist background and to Shakespeare's knowledge of Greek literature and culture. The final section, from the perspective of reception, examines how Shakespeare's classicism was seen and used by later writers. This accessible book offers a rounded and comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's classicism and will be a useful first port of call for students and others approaching the subject.