"Classical Influences"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1730/
Author:
	Burrow, Colin.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry, 98–115.
:
	Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry
Annotation:
	Examines classical influences--like Ovid's Metamorphoses--on Shakespeare's plays and poetry. Using the rude mechanical's version of Pyramus and Thisbe and Hamlet's attempt to remember the tale of Aeneas and Dido, argues that the plays' "classical moments are often audibly or visibly distinguished from the surrounding drama." Further argues that Shakespeare's sonnets wrestle with "the nature of immortality, of poetic permanence, of monuments, and of living energies" by examining Sonnets 60, 81, and 17.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Post, Jonathan F. S.; Ovid
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Sonnets
WSB Update:
	Winter 2014
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1730