How the Classics Made Shakespeare

Name: How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691210148
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Contributor(s): Bate, Jonathan Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780691210148
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Publication date	October 2020
Language	English
MRP	£15.99 GBP
Page count	378
Item weight	97 g

From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination

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 Rome. He worked in a theatrical profession that had inherited the conventions and forms of classical drama, and he read deeply in Ovid, Virgil, and Seneca. In a book that combines stylistic brilliance, accessibility, and extraordinary range, acclaimed literary critic and biographer Jonathan Bate, one of the world's leading authorities on Shakespeare, offers groundbreaking insights into how, perhaps more than any other influence, the classics made Shakespeare the writer he became.

How the Classics Made Shakespeare

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Bate, Jonathan Author

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