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, the authors investigate how he used his comparatively restricted knowledge to create, for example, an unusually convincing picture of Rome, and analyze, by presenting us with careful readings of specific passages, the styles Shakespeare employed under the influence of classical writers, especially Ovid, Seneca, and (in translation) Homer and Plutarch.
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Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin, Bristol University. Michelle Martindale teaches English and Latin at Lancing College.
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Ovid was Shakespeare's favourite poet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julius Caesar, Clarendon Press, New York, Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge University Press, Titus Andronicus, Yale University Press, Midsummer Night, English Renaissance, Shakespeare's Roman, The Winter's Tale, Emrys Jones, Kegan Paul, Edward Arnold, Kenneth Muir, Ben Jonson, Oxford University Press, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare's Rome, Charles Martindale, Faerie Queene, Ovid Renewed, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Penguin Shakespeare Library New!
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Ovid was Shakespeare's favourite poet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julius Caesar, Clarendon Press, New York, Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge University Press, Titus Andronicus, Yale University Press, Midsummer Night, English Renaissance, Shakespeare's Roman, The Winter's Tale, Emrys Jones, Kegan Paul, Edward Arnold, Kenneth Muir, Ben Jonson, Oxford University Press, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare's Rome, Charles Martindale, Faerie Queene, Ovid Renewed, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Penguin Shakespeare Library New!
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