How the classics made Shakespeare /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bate, Jonathan (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2019.
• Σειρά: E. H. Gombrich lecture series
• Θέματα: Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616, > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Κλασική λογοτεχνία > Επίδραση

Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to London, a city that modeled itself on ancient Rom...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. The Intelligence of Antiquity
• 2. O’er-Picturing Venus
• 3. Resemblance by Example
• 4. Republica Anglorum
• 5. Tragical-Comical- Historical- Pastoral
• 6. S. P. Q. L.
• 7. But What of Cicero?
• 8. Pyrrhus’s Pause
• 9. The Good Life
• 10. The Defence of Phantasms
• 11. An Infirmity Named Hereos
• 12. The Labours of Hercules
• 13. Walking Shadows
• 14. In the House of Fame
• Appendix: The Elizabethan virgil
• Notes
• Index.