It’s the 400th anniversary this week of the posthumous publication of the ‘First Folio’, in November 1623, so a good moment to venture something about Shakespeare. Within the gigantic Shakespeare industry, there’s a sizable sub-field on Shakespeare and “classical reception”, his use of the (Latin & Greek) classics, especially Ovid. Shakespeare plainly k…
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