Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity
Author: Colin Burrow
Publisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0199684782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains for students and scholars the nature and extent of Shakespeare's classical learning. It shows why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek', and demonstrates that Shakespeare acquired the central foundations of his art from his classical reading. It explores in detail his relationship to Virgil, Ovid, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Plutarch, as well as showing how his beliefs about and attitudes towards classicalliterature changed in the course of his career.