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This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors.

This book charts the influence of Seneca--both as specific text and inherited tradition--through Shakespeare's tragedies. Discerning patterns in previously attested borrowings and discovering new indebtedness, it presents an integrated and comprehensive assessment. Familiar methods of source study and a sophisticated understanding of intertextuality are employed to re-evaluate the much maligned Seneca in the light of his Greek antecedents, Ren...

This book surveys Shakespeare's comedies, charting the influence upon them of the ancient playwrights Plautus and Terence. Miola analyzes these sources, and places the comedies in their Renaissance context, as well as in the larger context of European theater. Discovering new indebtedness, and discerning new patterns in previously attested borrowings, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy presents an integrated and comprehensive assessment of the c...

Famously praised by John Keats for speaking 'loud and bold', Chapman's Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers. Many have praised its rough energy and creativity, the crashing power of the verses, its grim depiction of life and death in war. The companion to Gordon Kendal's edition of Chapman's Odyssey, this edition of his Iliad features a newly edited version of the 1611 printing (including all the transla...

Famously praised by John Keats for speaking 'loud and bold', Chapman's Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers. Many have praised its rough energy and creativity, the crashing power of the verses, its grim depiction of life and death in war. The companion to Gordon Kendal's edition of Chapman's Odyssey, this edition of his Iliad features a newly edited version of the 1611 printing (including all the transla...

This anthology makes available in modern spelling substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents silenced voices and redefines the culture of Early Modern England including such figures as Shakespeare, Donne, Spenser, Milton, and Jonson.

This anthology makes available in modern spelling substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents silenced voices and redefines the culture of Early Modern England including such figures as Shakespeare, Donne, Spenser, Milton, and Jonson.

Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Reading explores Shakespeare's marvelous reshaping of sources into new creations. Beginning with a discussion of how and what Elizabethans read--manuscripts, popular ...

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors." Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's d...

This book studies Shakespeare's changing vision of Rome in the six works where the city serves as a setting. Unlike other scholars treatment, the subject Dr Miola offers a coherent analysis of all the major appearances of Rome in the Shakespeare canon. Shakespeare's recurrent and varied treatment of Rome suggests that a close examination of the city's transformations can teach us much about his development as a playwright and the development o...