1st Edition

The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature

Edited By Sean Keilen, Nick Moschovakis Copyright 2017
346 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is... Read more

Table of Contents



Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature



Introduction Sean Keilen & Nick Moschovakis





1 Shakespeare’s books Michael Ursell & Melissa Yinger



2 A classical education William P. Weaver



3 Shakespeare and English translations of the classics Liz Oakley-Brown



4 Genre: comedy and tragedy Tanya Pollard



5 The sonnets and narrative poems Pamela Royston Macfie





6 Shakespeare's grammar Leah Whittington



7 Rhetoric and dalectic Nick Moschovakis



8 History and geography Jane Grogan



9 Shakespeare and myth Sarah Annes Brown



10 Shakespeare and classical cosmology Jean E. Feerick



11 Politics Amelia Zurcher





12 Classical drama before Shakespeare Robert Hornback



13 Classicism on the English stage during Shakespeare's youth and maturity Jeanne H. McCarthy



14 Popular classical drama Mark Bayer



15 Theater in theory Jennifer Waldron



16 Later classicism in the drama Michael Chemers



17 Shakespeare and Asian classics Poonam Trivedi





18 Shakespeare and "the classics" in the classroom: ten resources 



19 Human value Jim Kearney



20 What is a classic? Is Shakespeare a classic? Sean Keilen

Biography

Sean Keilen is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Shakespeare Workshop at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (2006) and of essays about English classicism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



Nick Moschovakis has taught subjects including Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and Western humanities at several colleges and universities. He is the author of articles and book chapters on Shakespeare; the editor of Macbeth: New Critical Essays (2008); and a member of Shakespeare Quarterly’s editorial board.



"This companion covers a truly impressive amount of ground: its myriad approaches and wide-ranging chapters prompting us to think differently (both as researchers and teachers) about the classicism of Shakespeare’s own works, their various theatrical and literary contexts and their enduring and evolving legacies."

- Katherine Heavey, University of Glasgow - Cahiers Elisabethains