Shakespeare's Canon

Authors

  • Charles R.W.D. Moseley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/emco.v8i1.3712

Keywords:

canonicity, canon, ovid, livy, horace, marlowe, sydney, influence, copia, imitatio, aemulatio

Abstract

This essay is concerned  with how Shakespeare himself might have thought about a canon. What for him were the books that, to use A. S. Byatt’s phrase, “every writer had to know in order to know who they are”? One part
of that question is easy: the books that every grammar school boy had beaten into him: Livy, Virgil, Ovid, Horace and so on. But how does a writer of his time, and, for that matter, of his calibre, negotiate their legacy? 

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Published

2022-06-23

How to Cite

Moseley, C. R. “Shakespeare’s Canon”. Early Modern Culture Online, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 23-37, doi:10.15845/emco.v8i1.3712.

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022)

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Copyright (c) 2022 Charles R.W.D. Moseley

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