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Author Burrow, Colin, author

Title Shakespeare and classical antiquity / Colin Burrow
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Oxford Shakespeare topics
Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Contents Introduction -- Learning from the past -- Virgil -- Ovid -- Roman comedy -- Seneca -- Plutarch -- Conclusion
Summary Oxford Shakespeare topics general editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells. Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. This book explains that Shakespeare did not have 'small Latin and less Greek' as Ben Jonson claimed. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows the range, extent and variety of Shakespeare's responses to classical antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Controversial literature
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Themes, motives
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Classical literature -- Appreciation -- England -- History
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Controversial literature
Classical literature -- Appreciation
Themes, motives
England
Genre/Form Controversial literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191507687
0191507687
1306194474
9781306194471