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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.

Über den Autor

Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. His many books include Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. He broadcasts regularly for the BBC, is the coeditor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works, and wrote an acclaimed one-man play for Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare. Twitter [...]

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	384
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691161600
ISBN-10:	0691161607
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bate, Jonathan
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	223 x 149 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Jonathan Bate
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.04.2019
Gewicht:	0,592 kg

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Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	384
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691161600
ISBN-10:	0691161607
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bate, Jonathan
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	223 x 149 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Jonathan Bate
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.04.2019
Gewicht:	0,592 kg