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How the Classics Made Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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How the Classics Made Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Series: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
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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 of 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. Revealing in new
depth the influence of Cicero and Horace on Shakespeare and finding
new links between him and classical traditions, ranging from myths
and magic to monuments and politics, Bate offers striking new
readings of a wide array of the plays and poems. At the heart of
the book is an argument that Shakespeare's supreme valuation of the
force of imagination was honed by the classical tradition and
designed as a defense of poetry and theater in a hostile world of
emergent Puritanism. Rounded off with a fascinating account of how
Shakespeare became our modern classic and has ended up playing much
the same role for us as the Greek and Roman classics did for him,
How the Classics Made Shakespeare combines stylistic brilliance,
accessibility, and scholarship, demonstrating why Jonathan Bate is
one of our most eminent and readable literary critics.
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