GENERALAltman, Joel B., The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama (Berkeley and London 1978)
Baldwin, T. W., William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke, 2 vols. (Urbana 1944)
Boyce, Benjamin, ‘The Stoic Consolatio and Shakespeare’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 64 (1949), 771–80
Brower, Reuben A., Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Tradition (New York (1971)
Bush, Douglas, Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry (New York 1963, rev. edn)
Faas, Ekbert, Shakespeare's Poetics (Cambridge 1986)
Girard, René, ‘Shakespeare's Theory of Mythology’, in Classical Mythology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Literature (Comparative Literature Proceedings 11), ed. Wendell M. Aycock and Theodore M. Klein (Lubbock, Texas 1980), 107–24
Grafton, Anthony and Jardine, Lisa, From Humanism to the Humanities (London 1986)
Jones, Emrys, The Origins of Shakespeare (Oxford 1977)
Leech, Clifford, ‘Shakespeare's Greeks’, in Stratford Papers on Shakespeare 1963, ed. B. W. Jackson (Toronto 1964), 1–20
Martindale, Charles and Martindale, Michelle, Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay (London and New York 1990)
Miola, Robert, Shakespeare's Reading (Oxford and New York 2000)
Miola, Robert, ‘“An alien people clutching their gods?” Shakespeare's Ancient Religions’, ShS 54 (2001), 31–45
Muir, Kenneth, The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays (London 1977)
Nosworthy, J. M., ‘Shakespeare's Pastoral Metamorphoses’, in The Elizabethan Theatre VIII, ed. George R. Hibberd (Port Credit 1982)
Peyré, Yves, ‘Iris's “rich scarf” and “Ariachne's broken woof” – Shakespeare's Mythology in the Twentieth Century’, in Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century (The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles 1996), ed. Jonathan Bate (Newark and London 1998), 280–93
Root, Robert Kilburn, Classical Mythology in Shakespeare (Yale Studies in English 19) (New York 1965, first published 1903)
Sowerby, Robin, The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry (London 1994)
Thomson, J. A. K., Shakespeare and the Classics (New York 1952)
Tiffany, Grace, ‘Shakespeare's Dionysian Prince: Drama, Politics, and the ‘Athenian’ History Play’, Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999), 366–81
Velz, John W., ‘Some Modern Views of Shakespeare's Classicism: A Bibliographical Sketch’, Anglia 81 (1963), 412–28
Velz, John W., ‘The Ancient World in Shakespeare: Authenticity or Anachronism? A Retrospect’, ShS 31 (1978), 1–12
White, Howard B., Copp'd Hills Towards Heaven: Shakespeare and the Classical Polity (International Archives of the History of Ideas 32) (The Hague (1970)
SHAKESPEARE AND ROMECantor, Paul A., Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire (Ithaca (1976)
Crowl, Samuel, ‘A World Elsewhere: The Roman Plays on Film and Television’, in Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television, ed. Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells (Cambridge 1994)
Holderness, Graham, Loughrey, Bryan, and Murphy, Andrew, eds., Shakespeare: The Roman Plays (London and New York 1996)
Hughes, Geoffrey, ‘“A World Elsewhere”: Romanitas and its Limitations in Shakespeare’, English Studies in Africa 28 (1985), 1–19
Hunter, G. K., ‘A Roman Thought: Attitudes to History Exemplified in Shakespeare and Jonson’, in An English Miscellany Presented to W. S. Mackie, ed. Brian S. Lee (Cape Town 1977), 93–115
Kahn, Coppélia, Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (London 1997)
Kayser, John R. and Lettieri, Ronald J., ‘“The Last of All the Romans”: Shakespeare's Commentary on Classical Republicanism’, Clio 9 (1979–80), 197–227
MacCallum, M. W., Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background (London 1910, 1967)
Marshall, Cynthia, ‘Shakespeare, Crossing the Rubicon’, ShS 53 (2000), 73–88
Miles, Gary B., ‘How Roman are Shakespeare's Romans?’, ShQ 40 (1989), 257–83
Miles, Geoffrey, Shakespeare and the Constant Romans (Oxford 1996)
Miola, Robert S., Shakespeare's Rome (Cambridge (1983)
Nuttall, A. D., A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality (London and New York 1983) (Chapter 3 on Julius Caesar and Coriolanus)
Ronan, Clifford, ‘Antike Roman’: Power Symbology and the Roman Play in Early Modern England, 1585–1635 (Athens, Georgia 1995)
Simmons, J. L., Shakespeare's Pagan World: The Roman Tragedies (Charlottesville, VA 1973)
Spencer, T. J. B., Shakespeare: The Roman Plays (London 1963)
Wells, Charles, The Wide Arch: Roman Values in Shakespeare (New York 1993)
INDIVIDUAL ANCIENT POETSAPULEIUSHolloway, Julia Bolton, ‘Apuleius and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom's Metamorphoses’, in Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time, ed. Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway (New York 2000), 123–37
McPeek, James A. S., ‘The Psyche Myth and A Midsummer Night's Dream’, ShQ 23 (1972), 69–79
Starnes, D. T., ‘Shakespeare and Apuleius’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945), 1,021–50
Tobin, J. J. M., Shakespeare's Favorite Novel: A Study of The Golden Ass as Prime Source (Lanham, MD 1984)
ARISTOTLE AND PLATOElton, William R., ‘Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’, Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), 331–7
Everett, Barbara, ‘Good and Bad Loves: Shakespeare, Plato, and the Plotting of the Sonnets’, Times Literary Supplement (5 July 2002), 13–15
Medcalf, Stephen, ‘Shakespeare on Beauty, Truth and Transcendence’, in Platonism and the English Imagination, ed. Anna Baldwin and Sarah Hutton (Cambridge 1994), 117–25
Shorey, Paul, Platonism and English Literature (Berkeley 1938)
Soellner, Rolf, ‘Shakespeare, Aristotle, Plato and the Soul’, Shakespeare-Jahrbuch (Bochum) (1968), 56–71
Wheater, Isabella, ‘Aristotelian Wealth and the Sea of Love: Shakespeare's Synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Roman Poetry in The Merchant of Venice (I-II)’, Review of English Studies 43 (1992), 467–87 and 44 (1993), 16–36
CICEROVawter, Marvin L., ‘“Division ’tween our souls”: Shakespeare's Stoic Brutus', ShSt 7 (1974), 173–95
Vawter, Marvin L., ‘“After their fashion”: Cicero and Brutus in Julius Caesar’, ShSt 9 (1976), 205–19
GREEK ROMANCEAdams, Martha Latimer, ‘The Greek Romance and William Shakespeare’, University of Mississippi Studies in English 8 (1967), 43–52
Archibald, Elizabeth, Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations (Woodbridge 1991)
Comito, Terry, ‘Exile and Return in the Greek Romances’, Arion 2 (1975), 59–80
Gesner, Carol, Shakespeare and the Greek Romance: A Study of Origins (Lexington 1970)
GREEK TRAGEDYArnold, Margaret J., ‘“Monsters in Love's Train”: Euripides and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’, Comparative Drama 18 (1984), 38–53
Bryant, A. J. Jr., ‘Julius Caesar from a Euripidean Perspective’, Comparative Drama 16 (1982), 97–111
Bushnell, R. W., ‘Oracular Silence in Oedipus the King and Macbeth’, Classical and Modern Literature 2 (1981/2), 195–204
Paolucci, Anne, ‘Macbeth and Oedipus Rex: A Study in Paradox’, in Shakespeare Encomium, ed. Anne Paolucci (New York 1964), 44–70
Poole, Adrian, Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (Oxford 1987)
Schleiner, Louise, ‘Latinized Greek Drama in Shakespeare's Writing of Hamlet’, ShQ 41 (1990), 29–48
Silk, Michael, ed., Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Oxford 1998)
Stump, Donald V., ‘Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy: Four Indirect Routes from Athens to London’, in Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition: Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett, ed. Donald V. Stump et al. (New York 1983), 211–46
Wilson, Douglas B., ‘Euripides’ Alcestis and the Ending of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale', Iowa State Journal of Research 58 (1984), 345–55
HORACEEdden, Valerie, ‘The Best of Lyrick Poets’, in Horace, ed. C. D. N. Costa (London 1973), 135–60
Martindale, Charles, ‘Horace, Ovid and Others’, in The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal, ed. Richard Jenkyns (Oxford 1992), 177–213
Martindale, Charles and Hopkins, David, eds., Horace Made New: Horatian Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge 1993)
Westbrook, Perry D., ‘Horace's Influence on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 62 (1947), 392–8
LIVYBarton, Anne, ‘Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus’, ShS 38 (1985), 115–29
Donaldson, Ian, The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and its Transformations (Oxford 1982)
LUCANBlissett, William, ‘Lucan's Caesar and the Elizabethan Villain’, Studies in Philology 53 (1956), 553–75
Logan, George M., ‘Lucan-Daniel-Shakespeare: New Light on the Relation between The Civil Wars and Richard II’, ShSt 9 (1976), 121–40
Ronan, Clifford J., ‘Lucan and the Self-Incised Voids of Julius Caesar’, Comparative Drama 22 (1988), 215–26
Ronan, Clifford J., ‘Lucanic Omens in Julius Caesar’, Comparative Drama 22 (1988), 138–44
LUCIANKott, Jan, ‘Lucian in Cymbeline’, Modern Language Review 67 (1972), 742–4
Robinson, Christopher, Lucian and his Influence in Europe (London 1979)
OVIDArmitage, David, ‘The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Mythic Elements in Shakespeare's Romances’, ShS 30 (1987), 123–33
Barkan, Leonard, ‘“Living Sculptures”: Ovid, Michelangelo, and The Winter's Tale’, Journal of English Literary History 48 (1981), 639–67
Barkan, Leonard, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (New Haven and London 1986) (Chapter 6 – ‘Shakespeare and the Metamorphoses of Art and Life’, 243–88)
Barnett, Louise, ‘Ovid and The Taming of the Shrew’, Ball State University Forum 20.3 (1979), 16–22
Bate, Jonathan, ‘Ovid and the Sonnets; or, Did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?’, ShS 42 (1990), 65–76
Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and Ovid (Oxford 1993)
Brown, Sarah Annes, ‘Ovid, Golding and The Tempest’, Translation and Literature 3 (1994), 3–29
Brown, Sarah Annes, The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (London 1999)
Carroll, William, The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (Princeton 1985)
Dean, Paul, ‘Antony and Cleopatra: An Ovidian Tragedy?’, Cahiers Elisabéthains 40 (1991), 73–7
Dundas, Judith, ‘Ovidian Shakespeare: Wit and the Iconography of the Passions’, Illinois Classical Studies 12 (1987), 121–33
Enterline, Lynn, The Rhetoric of the Body from Shakespeare to Ovid (Cambridge 2000)
Forey, Madelaine, ‘“Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated!”: Ovid, Golding and A Midsummer Night's Dream’, Modern Language Review 93 (1998), 321–9
Keach, William, Elizabethan Erotic Narrative: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their Contemporaries (London 1977)
Lamb, M. E., ‘Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night’, in Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Maurice Charney (New York 1980), 63–77
Lamb, M. E., ‘Ovid and The Winter's Tale: Conflicting Views Toward Art’, in Shakespeare and the Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S. F. Johnson, ed. W. R. Elton and W. B. Long (Newark 1989), 69–87
Martindale, Charles, ed., Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge 1988)
Mueller, Martin, ‘Hermione's Wrinkles, or, Ovid Transformed: An Essay on The Winter's Tale’, Comparative Drama 5 (1971), 226–39
Nosworthy, J. M., ‘Shakespeare's Pastoral Metamorphoses’, in The Elizabethan Theatre VIII, ed. G. R. Hibbard (Port Credit, Ontario 1982), 90–113
Phillippy, Patricia B., ‘“Loytering in Love”: Ovid's Heroides, Hospitality, and Humanist Education in The Taming of the Shrew’, Criticism 40 (1998), 27–53
Rudd, Niall, ‘Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid’, in Creative Imitation and Latin Literature, ed. D. West and T. Woodman (Cambridge 1976), 173–93
Stapleton, M. L., Harmful Eloquence: Ovid's Amores from Antiquity to Shakespeare (Ann Arbor 1996)
Stapleton, M. L., ‘Venus as Praeceptor: The Ars Amatoria in Venus and Adonis’, in Philip Kolin, ed., Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays (New York and London 1997), 309–21
Staton, W. F. Jr., ‘Ovidian Elements in A Midsummer Night's Dream’, Huntington Library Quarterly 26 (1962–3), 165–78
Taylor, A. B., ed., Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems (Cambridge 2000)
Truax, Elizabeth, Metamorphosis in Shakespeare's Plays: A Pageant of Heroes, Gods, Maids, and Monsters (Lewiston 1992)
Velz, John W., ‘The Ovidian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’, ShSt 18 (1986), 1–24
Wilkinson, L. P., Ovid Recalled (Cambridge 1955)
Willmott, Richard, ‘Helen's Crime or Golden Love? A Study of the Influence of Ovid's Amores on the Plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Yearbook 9 (1999), 282–305
PLAUTUS AND TERENCEArthos, John, ‘Shakespeare's Transformation of Plautus’, Comparative Drama 1 (1967–8), 239–53
Beck, Ervin, ‘Terence Improved: The Paradigm of the Prodigal Son in English Renaissance Comedy’, Renaissance Drama 6 (1973), 107–22
Bruster, Douglas, ‘Comedy and Control: Shakespeare and the Plautine Poeta’, Comparative Drama 24 (1990), 217–31
Coulter, Cornelia C., ‘The Plautine Tradition in Shakespeare’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 19 (1920), 66–83
Gill, E. M., ‘A Comparison of the Characters in The Comedy of Errors with Those in the Menaechmi’, University of Texas Studies in English 5 (1925), 79–95
Gill, E. M., ‘The Plot Structure of The Comedy of Errors in Relation to its Sources’, University of Texas Studies in English 10 (1930), 13–65
Harrold, William E., ‘Shakespeare's Use of Mostellaria in The Taming of the Shrew’, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West (1970), 188–94
Hosley, R., ‘The Formal Influence of Plautus and Terence’, in Elizabethan Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon Studies 9), ed. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris (London 1966), 131–45
Knox, Bernard, ‘The Tempest and the Ancient Comic Tradition’, in English Stage Comedy (English Institute Essays), ed. W. K. Wimsatt (New York 1955)
Louden, Bruce, ‘The Tempest, Plautus, and the Rudens’, Comparative Drama 33 (1999–2000), 199–23
Miola, Robert S., Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence (Oxford 1994)
Miola, Robert S., ‘New Comedy in King Lear’, Philological Quarterly 73 (1994), 329–46
Miola, Robert S., ‘The Influence of New Comedy on The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew’, in Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies, ed. Michael J. Collins (Newark 1997), 21–34
Riehle, W., Shakespeare, Plautus, and the Humanist Tradition (Cambridge 1990)
Rudd, Niall, The Classical Tradition in Operation (Toronto 1994)
Salingar, Leo, Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy (Cambridge 1974)
Svendsen, James, ‘The Fusion of Comedy and Romance: Plautus’ Rudens and Shakespeare's The Tempest', in From Pen to Performance: Drama as Conceived and Performed III, ed. Karelisa V. Hartigan (New York 1983), 121–35
PLINY THE ELDERBaldwin, T. W., ‘A Note Upon William Shakspeare's Use of Pliny’, in Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume, ed. Hardin Craig (New York 1967), 157–82
Simmons, J. L., ‘Holland's Pliny and Troilus and Cressida’, ShQ 27 (1976), 329–32
Truchet, Sybil, ‘The Art of Antiquity in Works by Lyly and Shakespeare’, Cahiers Elisabéthains 24 (1983), 17–26
PLUTARCHCook, Albert, ‘The Transmutation of Heroic Complexity: Plutarch and Shakespeare’, Classical and Modern Literature 17 (1996–7), 31–43
Dillon, Janette, ‘“Solitariness”: Shakespeare and Plutarch’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979), 325–44
Doyle, Brian, ‘The Soul of Plutarchos’, American Scholar 69.3 (2000), 111–22
Evans, Robert C., ‘Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: The Relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot’, Comparative Drama 35. 1 (2001), 1–41
Graves, Wallace, ‘Plutarch's Life of Cato Utican as a Major Source for Othello’, ShQ 24 (1973), 181–7
Green, David C., Plutarch Revisited: A Study of Shakespeare's Last Roman Tragedies and Their Source (Salzburg (1979)
Homan, Sidney, ‘Dion, Alexander, and Demetrius – Plutarch's Forgotten Parallel Lives – as Mirrors for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar’, ShSt 8 (1975), 195–210
Honigman, E. A. J., ‘Shakespeare's Plutarch’, ShQ 10 (1959), 25–33
Marshall, Cynthia, ‘Shakespeare, Crossing the Rubicon’, ShS 53 (2000), 73–88
McGrail, Mary Ann, ed., ‘Shakespeare's Plutarch’, Special Issue of Poetica (Tokyo 1997)
McJannet, Linda, ‘Antony and Alexander: Imperial Politics in Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Some Modern Historical Texts’, College Literature 20.3 (1993), 1–18
Mueller, Martin, ‘Plutarch's Life of Brutus and the Play of its Repetitions in Shakespearean Drama’, Renaissance Drama 22 (1991), 47–93
Pelling, C. B. R., ed., Plutarch: Life of Antony (Cambridge 1988)
Rothschild, Herbert B. Jr., ‘The Oblique Encounter: Shakespeare's Confrontation of Plutarch with Special Reference to Antony and Cleopatra’, English Literary Renaissance 6 (1976), 404–29
Russell, D. A., Plutarch (New York 1973)
Shackford, Martha Hale, Plutarch in Renaissance England, With Special Reference to Shakespeare (Wellesley 1929)
Spencer, T. J. B., Shakespeare's Plutarch (Baltimore 1964)
Wofford, Susanne L., ‘Antony's Egyptian Bachanals: Heroic and Divine Impersonation in Shakespeare's Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra’, Poetica 48 (1997), 33–67
SENECAArkins, Brian, ‘Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies’, Classics Ireland 2 (1995), 1–16
Boyle, A. J., Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition (London 1997)
Braden, Gordon, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege (New Haven 1985)
Brooks, Harold F., ‘Richard III, Unhistorical Amplifications: The Women's Scenes and Seneca’, Modern Language Review 75 (1980), 721–37
Cunliffe, John W., The Influence of Seneca in Elizabethan Tragedy (London (1893)
Ewbank, Inga-Stina, ‘The Fiend-Like Queen: A Note on Macbeth and Seneca's Medea’, ShS 19 (1966), 82–94
Frank, M., ‘Did Shakespeare Owe Anything to Seneca? The Debate Outlined’, Akroterion 42 (1997), 36–42
Helms, Lorraine, Seneca By Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama (Philadelphia 1997)
Hunter, G. K., ‘Seneca and English Tragedy’, in Seneca, ed. C. D. N. Costa (London 1974), 166–204
Kaufman, R. J., ‘The Seneca Perspective and the Shakespearean Poetic’, Comparative Drama 1 (1967), 182–98
Kiefer, Frederick, ‘Seneca's Influence on Elizabethan Tragedy: An Annotated Bibliography’, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 21 (1978), 17–34
Kiefer, Frederick, ‘Senecan Influence: A Bibliographical Supplement’, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 28 (1985), 129–42
Langford, Larry, ‘The Story Shall Be Changed: The Senecan Sources of A Midsummer Night's Dream’, Cahiers Elisabéthains 25 (1984), 37–51
Miola, Robert S., Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca (Oxford (1992)
Miola, Robert S., ‘Othello Furens’, ShQ 41 (1990), 49–64
Muir, Kenneth, ‘Shakespeare and the Tragic Pattern’, Proceedings of the British Academy 44 (1958), 145–62
Ornstein, Robert, ‘Seneca and the Political Drama of Julius Caesar’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958), 51–6
Stapleton, M. L., Fated Sky: The Femina Furens in Shakespeare (Newark and London 2000)
Truax, Elizabeth, ‘Macbeth and Hercules: The Hero Bewitched’, Comparative Drama 23 (1989–90), 359–76
Wallace, John M., ‘The Senecan Context of Coriolanus’, Modern Philology 90 (1992–3), 465–78
Wallace, John M., ‘Timon of Athens and The Three Graces: Shakespeare's Senecan Study’, Modern Philology 83 (1980), 349–63
SUETONIUS AND TACITUSBerry, E. G., ‘Shakespeare and Suetonius’, The Phoenix 2 (1947–8), 73–81
Montgomerie, William, ‘More an Antique Roman Than a Dane’, Hibbert Journal 59 (1960–1), 67–77
Price, George R., ‘Henry V and Germanicus’, ShQ 12 (1961), 57–60
Womersley, D. J., ‘3 Henry VI: Shakespeare, Tacitus, and Parricide’, Notes and Queries 230 (1985), 468–73
VIRGILBates, Paul A., ‘Shakespeare's Sonnets and Pastoral Poetry’, Shakespeare Journal 103 (1967), 81–96
Black, James, ‘Hamlet hears Marlowe, Shakespeare reads Virgil’, Renaissance and Reformation 18 (1994), 17–28
Bono, Barbara J., Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy (Berkeley (1984)
Bulman, James C., ‘Shakespeare's Georgic Histories’, ShS 38 (1985), 37–47
Hamilton, Donna B., Virgil and ‘The Tempest’: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH 1990)
Hamilton, Donna B., ‘Re-Engineering Virgil: The Tempest and the Printed English Aeneid’, in The Tempest and Its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme, William H. Sherman, and Robin Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia 2002), 114–20
James, Heather, ‘Cultural Disintegration in Titus Andronicus: Mutilating Titus, Vergil, and Rome’, in Violence in Drama, ed. James Redmond (Cambridge 1991), 123–40
James, Heather, Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (Cambridge 1997)
James, Heather, ‘Dido's Ear: Tragedy and the Politics of Response’, ShQ 52 (2001), 360–82
Knight, G. Wilson, Vergil and Shakespeare (Exeter 1977)
Kott, Jan, ‘The Aeneid and The Tempest’, Arion 3 (1978), 425–52
Miola, Robert S., ‘Vergil in Shakespeare: From Allusion to Imitation’, in Vergil at 2000: Commemorative Essays on the Poet and his Influence, ed. John D. Bernard (New York 1986), 241–59
Nuttall, A. D., ‘Virgil and Shakespeare’, in Virgil and his Influence, ed. Charles Martindale (Bristol 1984), 71–93
Pitcher, John, ‘“A Theatre of the Future”: The Aeneid and The Tempest’, Essays in Criticism 34 (1984), 194–215
Savage, Roger, ‘Dido Dies Again’, in A Woman Scorn'd: Responses to the Dido Myth, ed. Michael Burden (London 1998), 3–38
Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Virgil (Cambridge 1998)
Wiltenburg, Robert, ‘The Aeneid in The Tempest’, ShS 39 (1986), 159–68
Wright, Laurence, ‘Epic into Romance: The Tempest, 4.1, and Virgil's Aeneid’, Shakespeare in Southern Africa 9 (1996), 49–65
INDIVIDUAL PLAYSANTONY AND CLEOPATRADean, Paul, ‘Antony and Cleopatra: An Ovidian Tragedy?’, Cahiers Elisabéthains 40 (1991), 73–7
Westbrook, Perry D., ‘Horace's Influence on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 62 (1947), 392–8
See also Shakespeare and Rome, Plutarch
AS YOU LIKE ITHunt, Maurice, ‘Kairos and the Ripeness of Time in As You Like It’, Modern Language Quarterly 52 (1991), 113–35
Knowles, Richard, ‘Myth and Type in As You Like It’, Journal of English Literary History 33 (1966), 1–22
THE COMEDY OF ERRORSBaldwin, T. W., On the Compositional Genetics of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ (Urbana, IL 1965)
Gill, E. M., ‘A Comparison of the Characters in The Comedy of Errors with those in the Menaechmi’, University of Texas Studies in English 5 (1925), 79–95
Gill, E. M., ‘The Plot Structure of The Comedy of Errors in Relation to its Sources’, University of Texas Studies in English 10 (1930), 13–65
CORIOLANUSBarton, Anne, ‘Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus’, ShS 38 (1985), 115–29
Heuer, Hermann, ‘From Plutarch to Shakespeare: A Study of Coriolanus’, ShQ 10 (1957), 50–9
Pelling, Christopher, ‘The Shaping of Coriolanus: Dionysius, Plutarch, and Shakespeare’, Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic—Literary Studies 48 (1997), 3–32
Velz, John W., ‘Cracking Strong Curbs Asunder: Roman Destiny and the Roman Hero in Coriolanus’, English Literary Renaissance 13 (1983), 58–69
Wallace, John M., ‘The Senecan Context of Coriolanus’, Modern Philology 90 (1992–3), 465–78
CYMBELINEBergeron, David M., ‘Cymbeline: Shakespeare's Last Roman Play’, ShQ 31 (1980), 31–41
Gesner, Carol, ‘Cymbeline and the Greek Romance: A Study in Genre’, in Studies in English Renaissance Literature, ed. Waldo F. McNeir (Baton Rouge 1962), 105–31, 226–31
Kott, Jan, ‘Lucian in Cymbeline’, Modern Language Review 67 (1972), 742–4
HAMLETDiMatteo, Anthony, ‘Hamlet as Fable: Reconstructing a Lost Code of Meaning’, Connotations 6 (1996–7), 158–79
Eckert, Charles W., ‘The Festival Structure of the Orestes—Hamlet Tradition’, Comparative Literature 15 (1963), 321–37
Findlay, L. M., ‘Enriching Echoes: Hamlet and Orpheus’, Modern Language Notes 93 (1978), 982–9
Kilpatrick, Ross, ‘Hamlet the Scholar’, in Mélanges Offerts en Hommage au Révérend Père Étienne Gareau, ed. Pierre Brind'Amour (Ottawa 1982), 247–61
Kott, Jan, ‘Hamlet and Orestes’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 82 (1967), 303–13
Miola, Robert S., ‘Aeneas and Hamlet’, Classical and Modern Literature 8 (1987–8), 275–90
Schleiner, Louise, ‘Latinized Greek Drama in Shakespeare's Writing of Hamlet’, ShQ 41 (1990), 29–48
HENRY IVStewart, Douglas J., ‘Falstaff the Centaur’, ShQ 28 (1977), 5–21
HENRY VBetts, John H., ‘Classical Allusions in Shakespeare's Henry V with Special Reference to Virgil’, Greece and Rome15 (1968), 147–63
Merrix, Robert P., ‘The Alexandrian Allusion in Shakespeare's Henry V’, English Literary Renaissance 2 (1972), 321–33
HENRY VIWomersley, D. J., ‘3 Henry VI: Shakespeare, Tacitus, and Parricide’, Notes and Queries 230 (1985), 468–73
JULIUS CAESARBlits, Jan H., The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on ‘Julius Caesar’ (Durham, NC 1982)
Bryant, A. J. Jr., ‘Julius Caesar from a Euripidean Perspective’, Comparative Drama 16 (1982), 97–111
Gentili, Vanna, ‘Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Elizabethans’ Roads to Rome', in Shakespeare Today: Directions and Methods of Research, ed. Keir Elam (Florence 1984), 186–214
Green, David C., ‘Julius Caesar’ and Its Sources (Jacobean Drama Series 86) (Salzburg 1979)
Homan, Sidney, ‘Dion, Alexander, and Demetrius – Plutarch's Forgotten Parallel Lives – as Mirrors for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar’, ShSt 8 (1975), 195–210
Miller, Anthony, ‘The Roman State in Julius Caesar and Sejanus’, in Jonson and Shakespeare, ed. Ian Donaldson (New Jersey 1983), 179–201
Miola, Robert S., ‘Julius Caesar and the Tyrannicide Debate’, Renaissance Quarterly 38 (1985), 271–89
Miola, Robert S., ‘Shakespeare and his Sources: Observations on the Critical History of Julius Caesar’, ShSt 40 (1987), 69–76
Ornstein, Robert, ‘Seneca and the Political Drama of Julius Caesar’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958), 51–6
Roe, John, Shakespeare and Machiavelli (Woodbridge, Suffolk 2002) (Chapter 5 on Julius Caesar)
See also Shakespeare and Rome, Cicero and Lucan
KING LEARMiola, Robert S., ‘New Comedy in King Lear’, Philological Quarterly 73 (1994), 329–46
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOSTEvans, Malcolm, ‘Mercury Versus Apollo: A Reading of Love's Labour's Lost’, ShQ 26 (1975), 113–27
MACBETHBushnell, R. W., ‘Oracular Silence in Oedipus the King and Macbeth’, Classical and Modern Literature 2 (1981–2), 195–204
Ewbank, Inga-Stina, ‘The Fiend-Like Queen: A Note on Macbeth and Seneca's Medea’, ShS 19 (1966), 82–94
Paolucci, Anne, ‘Macbeth and Oedipus Rex: A Study in Paradox’, in Shakespeare Encomium, ed. Anne Paolucci (New York 1964), 44–70
Truax, Elizabeth, ‘Macbeth and Hercules: The Hero Bewitched’, Comparative Drama 23 (1989–90), 359–76
MEASURE FOR MEASURERosenheim, Judith, ‘The Stoic Meanings of the Friar in Measure for Measure’, ShSt 15 (1982), 171–215
Rowe, M. W., ‘The Dissolution of Goodness: Measure for Measure and Classical Ethics’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5 (1998–9), 20–46
THE MERCHANT OF VENICEWheater, Isabella, ‘Aristotelian Wealth and the Sea of Love: Shakespeare's Synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Roman Poetry in The Merchant of Venice (I–II)’, Review of English Studies 43 (1992), 467–87 and 44 (1993), 16–36
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSORHinely, Jan Lawson, ‘Comic Scapegoats and the Falstaff of The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ShSt 15 (1982), 37–54
Steadman, John M., ‘Falstaff as Actaeon: A Dramatic Emblem’, ShQ 14 (1963), 231–44
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMCarroll, W. C., The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (Princeton 1985)
Doran, M., A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Metamorphosis (Rice Institute Pamphlets 46) (1960), 113–35
Fender, S., Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night's Dream (Studies in English Literature 35) (London 1968)
Garber, Marjorie B., Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis (New Haven (1974)
Holloway, Julia Bolton, ‘Apuleius and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom's Metamorphoses’, in Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time, ed. Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway (New York 2000), 123–37
Kott, Jan, ‘The Bottom Translation’, Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts 1 (1981), 117–49
Langford, Larry, ‘The Story Shall Be Changed: The Senecan Sources of A Midsummer Night's Dream’, Cahiers Elisabéthains 25 (1984), 37–51
McPeek, James A. S., ‘The Psyche Myth and A Midsummer Night's Dream’, ShQ 23 (1972), 69–79
Muir, Kenneth, ‘Pyramus and Thisbe: A Study in Shakespeare's Method’, Shakespeare Quarterly 5 (1954), 141–53
Taylor, A. B., ‘“When Everything Seems Double”: Peter Quince the Other Playwright in A Midsummer Night's Dream’, ShS (forthcoming)
See also Ovid
OTHELLOEvans, Robert C., ‘Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: The Relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot’, Comparative Drama 35.1 (2001), 1–41
Graves, Wallace, ‘Plutarch's Life of Cato Utican as a Major Source for Othello’, ShQ 24 (1973), 181–7
Miola, Robert S., ‘Othello Furens’, ShQ 41 (1990), 49–64
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYREGreenfield, Thelma N., ‘A Re-Examination of the “Patient” Pericles’, ShSt 3 (1967), 51–61
THE RAPE OF LUCRECEAllen, Don Cameron, ‘Some Observations on The Rape of Lucrece’, ShS 15 (1962), 89–98
Donaldson, Ian, The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and its Transformations (Oxford 1982)
Hulse, S. Clark III, ‘“A Piece of Skilful Painting” in Shakespeare's Lucrece’, ShSt 31 (1978), 13–22
Muir, Kenneth, ‘The Rape of Lucrece’, in Shakespeare the Professional and Related Studies (London 1973), 187–203
RICHARD IILeon, Harry J., ‘Classical Sources for the Garden Scene in Richard II’, Philological Quarterly 29 (1950), 65–70
Logan, George M., ‘Lucan—Daniel—Shakespeare: New Light on the Relation between The Civil Wars and Richard II’, ShSt 9 (1976), 121–40
RICHARD IIIBrooks, Harold F., ‘Richard III, Unhistorical Amplifications: The Women's Scenes and Seneca’, Modern Language Review 75 (1980), 721–37
ROMEO AND JULIETPorter, Joseph A., Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama (Chapel Hill, NC 1988)
THE SONNETSBate, Jonathan, ‘Ovid and the Sonnets; or, Did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?’, ShS 42 (1990), 65–76
Everett, Barbara, ‘Good and Bad Loves: Shakespeare, Plato, and the Plotting of the Sonnets’, Times Literary Supplement (5 July 2002), 13–15
Leishman, J. B., Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets (London 1961)
THE TAMING OF THE SHREWBarnett, Louise, ‘Ovid and The Taming of the Shrew’, Ball State University Forum 20. 3 (1979), 16–22
Harrold, William E., ‘Shakespeare's Use of Mostellaria in The Taming of the Shrew’, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West (1970), 188–94
Phillippy, Patricia B., ‘“Loytering in Love”: Ovid's Heroides, Hospitality, and Humanist Education in The Taming of the Shrew’, Criticism 40 (1998), 27–53
THE TEMPESTBrown, Sarah Annes, ‘Ovid, Golding and The Tempest’, Translation and Literature 3 (1994), 3–29
Nosworthy, J. M., ‘The Narrative Sources for The Tempest’, Review of English Studies 24 (1948), 281–94
Wills, Robin Headlam, ‘Blessing Europe: Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca in The Tempest’, in M. Marrapodi, ed., Shakespeare and Intertextuality: The Transition of Cultures Between Italy and England in the Early Modern Period (Rome 2000), 69–84
See also Virgil, Plautus, and Terence
TIMON OF ATHENSWallace, John M., ‘Timon of Athens and The Three Graces: Shakespeare's Senecan Study’, Modern Philology 83 (1980), 349–63
TITUS ANDRONICUSBroude, Ronald, ‘Roman and Goth in Titus Andronicus’, ShS 6 (1970), 27–34
Ettin, Andrew V., ‘Shakespeare's First Roman Tragedy’, English Literary History 37 (1970), 325–41
Hunter, G. K., ‘Sources and Meanings in Titus Andronicus’, in Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G. R. Hibbard, ed. J. C. Gray (Toronto 1984), 171–88
James, Heather, ‘Cultural Disintegration in Titus Andronicus: Mutilating Titus, Vergil, and Rome’, in Violence in Drama, ed. James Redmond (Cambridge 1991), 123–40
Law, Robert Adger, ‘The Roman Background of Titus Andronicus’, Studies in Philology 40 (1943), 145–53
Miola, Robert S., ‘Titus Andronicus and the Mythos of Shakespeare's Rome’, ShSt 14 (1981), 85–98
Pincombe, Michael, ‘Classical and Contemporary Sources of the “Gloomy Woods” of Titus Andronicus: Ovid, Seneca, Spenser’, in Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honour of E. A. J. Honigmann, ed. John Batchelor, Tom Cain, and Claire Lamont (Basingstoke 1997), 40–55
Waith, E. M., ‘The Metamorphosis of Violence in Titus Andronicus’, ShS 10 (1957), 39–49
West, Grace Starry, ‘Going By The Book: Classical Allusions in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus’, Studies in Philology 79 (1982), 62–77
TROILUS AND CRESSIDAArnold, Margaret J., ‘“Monsters in Love's Train”: Euripides and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’, Comparative Drama 18 (1984), 38–53
Bradshaw, Graham, Shakespeare's Scepticism (Brighton 1987)
Elton, William R., ‘Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’, Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), 331–7
Henderson, W. B., ‘Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Yet Deeper in its Tradition’, in Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume, ed. Hardin Craig (New York 1967), 127–56
Hunter, G. K., ‘Troilus and Cressida: A Tragic Satire’, ShSt (Tokyo) 13 (1974–5), 1–23
Muir, Kenneth, ‘Shakespeare and the Tale of Troy’, Aligarh Critical Miscellany 5 (1992), 113–31
Presson, Robert K., Shakespeare's ‘Troilus and Cressida’ and the Legends of Troy (Madison, WI 1953)
Simmons, J. L., ‘Holland's Pliny and Troilus and Cressida’, ShQ 27 (1976), 329–32
Smith, Valerie, ‘The History of Cressida’, in Self and Society in Shakespeare's ‘Troilus and Cressida’ and ‘Measure for Measure’, ed. J. A. Jowitt and R. K. S. Taylor (Bradford 1982), 61–79
Suzuki, Mihoko, ‘“Truth tired with iteration”: Myth and Fiction in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’, Philological Quarterly 66 (1987), 153–74
TWELFTH NIGHTLamb, M. E., ‘Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night’, in Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Maurice Charney (New York 1980), 63–77
Taylor, A. B., ‘Shakespeare Rewriting Ovid: Olivia's Interview with Viola and the Narcissus Myth’, ShS 50 (1997), 81–9
VENUS AND ADONISFroes, João, ‘Shakespeare's Venus and the Venus of Classical Mythology’, in Venus and Adonis – Critical Essays, ed. Philip C. Kolin (New York and London 1997), 301–7
Hamilton, A. C., ‘Venus and Adonis’, Studies in English Literature 1 (1961), 1–15
Maguin, Jean-Marie, ‘The Mythical Background of Venus and Adonis – Intertexts and Invention’, in William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis: Nouvelles Perspectives Critiques, ed. Jean-Marie Maguin and Charles Whitworth (Montpellier 1999), 19–42
Streitburger, W. R., ‘Ideal Conduct in Venus and Adonis’, ShQ 26 (1975), 285–91
THE WINTER'S TALEHanna, Sara, ‘Voices Against Tyranny: Greek Sources of The Winter's Tale’, Classical and Modern Literature 14 (1993–94), 335–44
Wilson, Douglas B., ‘Euripides’ Alcestis and the Ending of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale', Iowa State Journal of Research 58 (1984), 345–55
See also Ovid
