Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-310) and index.
Contents:
PART IV. THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEAR'S CLASSICISM -- 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism / Sarah Annes Brown. PART II. 'SMALL LATINE' -- OVID -- Petruchio is 'Kated': The taming of the shrew and Ovid / Vanda Zajko -- Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in A midsummer night's dream / A.B. Taylor -- Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom / Heather James -- VIRGIL -- Shakespeare and Virgil / Charles Martindale -- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE -- Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered / Wolfgang Riehle -- Shakespeare, Plautus, and the discovery of new comic space / Raphael Lyne -- SENECA -- 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth / Yves Peyre? -- 'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2 / Erica Sheen -- PART III. 'LESSE GREEK' -- 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony / John Roe -- Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males / Gordon Braden -- GENERAL -- Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks / A.D. Nuttall -- GREEK ROMANCES -- Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' / Stuart Gillespie -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship / Michael Silk -- PART IV. THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEAR'S CLASSICISM -- 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism' / David Hopkins -- 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism / Sarah Annes Brown.
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