Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity

Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781134848508
ISBN-13 : 1134848501
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity by : Michelle Martindale

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity written by Michelle Martindale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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