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- Title
Homeric voices in Antony and Cleopatra.
- Authors
Peyré, Yves
- Abstract
This article focuses on Antony and Cleopatra, more particularly on the construction of the character of Antony, in order to address the problematic relationship between the Homeric tradition -- in all its complexity -- and early modern drama. The article proposes two processes of reception as complementary. First, Shakespeare, while working from North's Plutarch, may also have had in mind Mary Herbert's Antonius and/or Horace's Ode I.15 and some of its early modern interpretations. Second, imaginative patterns, already latent in the Homeric text itself, may have filtered down to early modern English texts, with a special focus on the mediation of early modern translations of Homer into Latin.
- Subjects
HOMER, fl. ca. 900 B.C.-ca. 801 B.C.; ANTONY &; Cleopatra (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; LITERATURE translations; PEMBROKE, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621
- Publication
Classical Receptions Journal, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
1759-5134
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/crj/clw015