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A quarter of Shakespeare’s major works were based on stories from the Classical World and have influenced our view of the Classical World ever since. What is the course about? We shall examine the plays inspired by myths and history from Ancient Greece and Rome. We shall be looking at the plots of these briefly… Read more »
- Posted on: February 5, 2021
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- Also tagged A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Antony and Cleopatra, Art History, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Greek Myths, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Timon of Athens, Troy
This tag: Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare and the Classical World This course was held at the City Lit on Saturday 11th November 2017. It was repeated online during the pandemic over three Friday evenings on 5th, 12th and 19th February 2021. A quarter of Shakespeare’s major works were based on stories from the Classical World and have influenced our view… Read more »
- Posted on: November 7, 2017
- Featured in History, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Achilles, Actium, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Antony and Cleopatra, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Celtic History, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, European History, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Ovid, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Classical World, Shakespeare400, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troy, Two Noble Kinsmen, Venus and Adonis