Shakespeare and the classics / edited by Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor.
| Other author | Martindale, Charles. |
| Other author | Taylor, A. B. (Albert Booth) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004. |
| Description | xiii, 319 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Subjects |
| Contents | PART I. AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE -- Shakespeare and humanistic culture / Colin Burrow -- PART II. 'SMALL LATINE' -- OVID -- Petruchio is 'Kated': The taming of the shrew and Ovid / Vanda Zajko -- Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in A midsummer night's dream / A.B. Taylor -- Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom / Heather James -- VIRGIL -- Shakespeare and Virgil / Charles Martindale -- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE -- Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered / Wolfgang Riehle -- Shakespeare, Plautus, and the discovery of new comic space / Raphael Lyne -- SENECA -- 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth / Yves Peyre? -- 'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2 / Erica Sheen -- PART III. 'LESSE GREEK' -- 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony / John Roe -- Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males / Gordon Braden -- GENERAL -- Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks / A.D. Nuttall -- GREEK ROMANCES -- Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' / Stuart Gillespie -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship / Michael Silk -- PART IV. THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEAR'S CLASSICISM -- 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism' / David Hopkins -- 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism / Sarah Annes Brown. |
| Local note | Little-347799--305131054414V |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-310) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004040405 |
| ISBN | 0521823455 |
| ISBN | 9780521823456 |