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SUMMARY:Plutarch the Elizabethan: Shakespeare's formative influence on Plu
 tarch - Dr Stuart Gillespie\, University of Glasgow
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CONTACT:Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA
DESCRIPTION:Plutarch gave Renaissance Europe as much stimulus to imaginati
 ve treatments of antiquity as any other source. Sir Thomas North’s rich 
 Elizabethan translation of the _Lives_ is the undoubted source of Shakespe
 are’s knowledge of Plutarch. \n\nScholarly work on Shakespeare’s Pluta
 rch has never been in short supply\, but its principle has always been mon
 o-directional: what Shakespeare ‘took’ or ‘learned’ from Plutarch/
 North\, rather than how the dialogue affected them. \nYet North’s work i
 s now best known as a Shakespeare source\, and in the English-speaking wor
 ld\, at least\, Plutarch is often encountered primarily in that capacity t
 oo. Hence it can be argued that all post-Elizabethan readings of Plutarch'
 s _Lives_ are affected by the dynamics of this cultural moment. \n\nThis d
 iscussion sets out with the _Life of Antony and Antony and Cleopatra_\, th
 en moves to some later Cleopatras and the post-Renaissance Plutarchan trad
 ition of biography\, to ask whether Plutarch will always be an Elizabethan
 \, or whether other Plutarchs are recuperable and/or desirable.\n\n*Stuart
  Gillespie* is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. His mon
 ograph on _English Translation and Classical Reception_ is published by Wi
 ley-Blackwell this year. He is general editor (with Peter France) of the f
 ive-volume _Oxford History of Literary Translation in English_ (2005 onwar
 ds)\, the Renaissance volume of which (the 4th of the 5 vols to appear) he
  has co-edited for publication also in late 2010. \nIn the field of classi
 cal reception he co-edited _The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius_ (with Ph
 ilip Hardie\, 2007)\, and is currently writing for the _Oxford History of 
 Classical Reception in English Literature_ and the _Blackwell Companion to
  Persius and Juvenal_. His principal recent publications on Shakespeare ar
 e the reference work _Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's
  Reading_ (2001)\, and essay collection _Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popul
 ar Culture_ (edited with Neil Rhodes for the Arden Shakespeare\, 2006).\n\
 nA discussion will follow Dr Gillespie's paper\, and the seminar will conc
 lude with drinks at 6.45 p.m.\n\nDr Gillespie's paper launches the Seminar
 's %Classical Reception Series% in Cambridge. The first London event in th
 e Series takes place on Tuesday\, 16 March\, at 5.30 pm in the School of A
 dvanced Study\, University of London\, when Prof. Michael Silk (Kings\, Lo
 ndon) will present his paper:\n\n‘Receptions and Other Relationships: Fr
 om the Ridiculous to the Sublime (Longinus\, Kant\, Lyotard\, Shakespeare\
 , Euripides)’\n\n%{color:red}All are welcome!% \n\nImage: Giovanni Batti
 sta Tiepolo\, 'The Banquet of Cleopatra' [1746-47]\, detail of fresco in P
 alazzo Labia\, Venice\n\nSeminar webpage: http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/i
 ndex.php?id=333\n
LOCATION:Meeting Room\, Clare Hall\, Herschel Road
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