Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory EssayAlthough 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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... scene in Cymbeline , and surpassed him in a speech in The Tempest . And although he read at least some of the Aeneid , and echoed it , his poetic encounter with Virgil was not a profoundly productive one , in contrast to Dante's or ...
... scene in Cymbeline , and surpassed him in a speech in The Tempest . And although he read at least some of the Aeneid , and echoed it , his poetic encounter with Virgil was not a profoundly productive one , in contrast to Dante's or ...
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... scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a caveat which applies to this book as a whole . All critical methods are necessarily partial , and this is a particular problem when one is dealing with a writer as ix PREFACE.
... scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a caveat which applies to this book as a whole . All critical methods are necessarily partial , and this is a particular problem when one is dealing with a writer as ix PREFACE.
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