Classical Mythology In Shakespeare - Robert Kilburn Root

Robert Kilburn Root

Kessinger Publishing

2006

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-13: 9781428625495

Excerpt from Classical Mythology in Shakespeare

The term classical mythology has been taken to include not only the divinities of the ancient religion and such tales as those of Ovid's Metamorphoses, but also the heroes of the Trojan war and the personages of the Eneid. In a number of cases, such, for example, as Fortune, Nature, and Fame, it has not been easy to draw a hard and fast line between mythology and mere philosophical personification. In Part First, where the myths are discussed severally, I have been inclined to include such subjects, while excluding them as doubtful from the generalizations Of Part Second and the Introduction.