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The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (Paperback)
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The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (Paperback)
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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 connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare,
himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world
literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the
volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek
reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of
pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in
what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and
drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth
century. Second-and no less central-is the idea of classics as
such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most
in their era, justifies their protection against historical and
cultural change. The volume's organizing insight is that as
Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense,
his work's reception has more and more come to resemble that of
classics in the first sense-of ancient texts subject to labored
critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are
needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts'
growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness.
The volume presents overviews and argumentative essays about the
presence of Latin and Greek literature in Shakespeare's writing.
They coexist in the volume with thought pieces on the uses of the
classical as a historical and pedagogical category, and with
practical essays on the place of ancient classics in today's
Shakespearean classrooms.
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