The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature

Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates 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; and also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities rate Shakespeare, himself, a classic(arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama.