1st Edition
Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity An Introductory Essay
By Michelle Martindale
Copyright 1994
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although a third of his plays are set in the ancient world and he constantly used classical mythology, history, and ideas, Shakespeare received a simple grammar school education and did not have a scholar's knowledge of the classics. The critical implications of this are the subject of Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity . Against a recent academic tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning,... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Shakespeare’s Ovid; Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s Troy; Chapter 4 Shakespeare’s Rome; Chapter 5 Shakespeare’s Stoicism;
Biography
Charles Michelle Martindale
