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Title Shakespeare and the classics / edited by Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, 2004
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; NOTES; CHAPTER 1 Shakespeare and humanistic culture; OVID; VIRGIL; PLAUTUS AND TERENCE; SENECA; PLUTARCH; GENERAL; GREEK ROMANCES; GREEK TRAGEDY; CHAPTER 15 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism'; CHAPTER 16 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism; Select bibliography; 1. REFERENCE; 2. GENERAL; 3. SHAKESPEARE AND ROME; 4. INDIVIDUAL ANCIENT POETS; 5. INDIVIDUAL PLAYS; Index
Summary 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 offers the most rounded and comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's classicism currently available
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-310) and index
Notes English
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Greece
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Rome
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William. swd
Subject Classicism -- England -- History -- 16th century
English literature -- Classical influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
English literature -- Classical influences
Literature
Classicism
Rezeption
Antike
Klassieke oudheid.
Letterkunde.
Invloed.
Literatura inglesa (crítica e interpretação)
England
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Martindale, Charles
Taylor, A. B. (Albert Booth)
LC no. 2004040405
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