Colin Burrow

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity explains the nature and extent of Shakspeare's classical learning, exploring why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek'. It examines Shakespeare's relationship to classical texts and how this relationship changed in the course of his career.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Shakespeare Topics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199684786
• ISBN-10: 0199684782
• Artikelnr.: 39338666

Autorenporträt

Colin Burrow is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has written widely on the relationship between Renaissance literature and the classical past, in his OUP monograph Epic Romance: Homer to Milton, and in a wide range of articles on Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare and other authors. He edited the Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare, as well as Ben Jonson's poems for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He is working on two book projects: a study of the idea and practice of literary imitation, and the Elizabethan volume for the Oxford English Literary History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Learning from the Past
2: Virgil
3: Ovid
4: Roman Comedy
5: Seneca
6: Plutarch
Conclusion
Further Reading