Wilderness of Tigers
Michael Neill: Shakespeare’s Latin, 19 March 2015
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity
by Colin Burrow.
Oxford, 281 pp., £16.99, September 2013,978 0 19 968479 3 Show More
by Colin Burrow.
Oxford, 281 pp., £16.99, September 2013,
“... to have been mediated through Latin and English translations, he knew Plutarch well through Sir Thomas North’s version of the Parallel Lives, and is likely to have kept up with the publication of Chapman’s Homer. Successive chapters of Burrow’s book explore Shakespeare’s engagement with Ovid, Virgil, Plautus and Terence, Seneca and Plutarch, as well ... ”