1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810176503321

Autore

Stagman Myron

Titolo

Shakespeare's Greek drama secret / / by Myron Stagman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-282-77692-4

9786612776922

1-4438-2466-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Greek drama

English drama - Greek influences

Comparative literature - English and Greek

Comparative literature - Greek and English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION I; INTRODUCTION II; PART ONE; INTRODUCTION TO GREEK DRAMA; AESCHYLUS; SOPHOCLES; EURIPIDES; ARISTOPHANES; CONCLUSION; PART TWO; SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL MILIEU OF THE RENAISSANCE; SHAKESPEARE'S FORMAL EDUCATION; TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK DRAMA; SHAKESPEARE'S MODUS OPERANDI AS A PLAYWRIGHT; PLUTARCH; THE GREEK MOVEMENT AND THE COURT; BEN JONSON; PLAUSIBLE INTERMEDIARIES?; CONCLUSION; PART THREE; SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY; SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY; SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY; PART FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading!! This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays,