| Description |
1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Shakespeare's books; 2 A classical education; 3 Shakespeare and English translations of the classics; 4 Genre: comedy and tragedy; 5 The sonnets and narrative poems: Shakespeare, Ovid, reversal, and surprise; 6 Shakespeare's grammar: Latin, literacy, and the vernacular; 7 Rhetoric and dialectic; 8 History and geography; 9 Shakespeare and myth; 10 Shakespeare and classical cosmology; 11 Politics; 12 Classical drama before Shakespeare: from imitatio to "mimic men." |
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13 Classicism on the English stage during Shakespeare's youth and maturity: popularizing classical learning14 Popular classical drama: the case of Heywood's Ages; 15 Theater in theory: Shakespeare, sacrifice, and classical antiquity; 16 Later classicism in the drama: how Shakespeare's ghosts came to haunt the eighteenth century; 17 Shakespeare and Asian classics: encounters in India; 18 Shakespeare and "the classics" in the classroom: ten resources; 19 Human value: ethics, antiquity, misanthropy; 20 What is a classic? Is Shakespeare a classic?; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moschovakis, Nick
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| ISBN |
9781317041689 |
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1317041682 |
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