On Blogging Shakespeare – ‘Shakespeare: Renaissance Man’

14. Oct, 2010 ·Comments Off on On Blogging Shakespeare – ‘Shakespeare: Renaissance Man’

Lecturing yesterday evening at the Shakespeare Centre on ‘Shakespeare as a Man of the Renaissance’, I stressed particularly the fact that he had a humanistic education, centering on Latin literature and on the techniques of rhetoric and oratory of which he displays great mastery in his plays and poems. He draws extensively on Roman history, […]