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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) 1st Edition

by Colin Burrow (Author)
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  • Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199684790
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199684793
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.7 x 5.3 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsShakespeare's wide ranging use of classical literature in his poetry and plays
By Frances S. Heales on February 17, 2014
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This is an outstanding piece of scholarship. Doctor Burrow demonstrates how Shakespeare not only quoted from Greek and Roman authors, but used characters and situations from classical literature in his work in very significant ways. He did not just 'lift' them but modified them to suit his work. Dr Burrow examines the language used in the originals and the ways in which words were changed in translations that changed their meanings and/or connotation. The test is copiously annotated. Dr Burrow puts to rest the charge that Shakespeare 'knew less Latin and lesser Greek, in fact his knowledge was not the result of school boy 'rote' but a life long reference to these earlier writers.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat if you know some Shakespeare and a bit of classical literatue
By ewaffle on January 26, 2016
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Hamlet’s great soliloquy is a meditation on suicide that presents both sides (To be or not to be) with equal authority. Colin Burrow thinks this technique has its genesis in Shakespeare’s grammar school education, part of which was extemporizing arguments in the style of classical authors and debating each side of a question in rhetorical exercise. This is just one example the uses Shakespeare made of the classic literature and how it developed during his career. Burrow’s interest is not so much in demonstrating the extent of Shakespeare’s classical knowledge as in showing what he did with it, and how it changed through his career in response to his contemporaries, audiences, and the fraught political situation at the end of the Tudor dynasty and the beginning of the Stuart monarchy.

Two of Shakespeare's classical sources are Plutarch and Ovid. Plutarch's Parallel Lives provides the biographies of Greek and Roman rulers that Shakespeare used in creating Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens. Ovid's Metamorphoses, which seems to have been Shakespeare's primary source for classical mythology, can be seen in Titus Andronicus and Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's early comedies lean on Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence for plots and characters

Shakespeare may have used the devices and techniques of the classical theater in order to both show his mastery of the form and to transgress its conventions—how post-modern of him.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsScholarly but worth it for serious Shakespeare fans
By Amazon Customer on August 30, 2014
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Excellent book. It's fairly scholarly so you should have a deep interest in the Shakespeare works if you plan to buy it.
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By E Christenfeld on January 3, 2015
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Original and enlightening ideas and hugely entertaining reading
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