Outputs (3)

Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus (2016)
Book Chapter
Gray, P. (2016). Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey: Shakespeare and Rome (46-57). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/sso9781316670408.005

The influence of Virgil’s Aeneid in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is more extensive than has been recognized to date, largely because Shakespeare studies, surprisingly, still has not entirely acknowledged or addressed the more ambiguous reading of t... Read More about Shakespeare and the Other Virgil: Pity and Imperium in Titus Andronicus.

Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity (2016)
Book Chapter
Gray, P. (2016). Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity. In E. A. Dodson-Robinson (Ed.), Brill's companion to the reception of Senecan tragedy : scholarly, theatrical and literary receptions (203-230). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004310988_011

Critical examination of the possibility that Senecan tragedy influenced Shakespeare has moved through several distinct phases. Early interest in verbal parallels and analogous literary conventions met with resistance from critics such as G. K. Hunter... Read More about Shakespeare vs. Seneca: Competing Visions of Human Dignity.

The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero (2016)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2016). The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero. Shakespeare-Jahrbuch (Weimar), 152, 30-44

In Julius Caesar, Brutus is a deeply attractive character, not only to his wife, Portia, and his friend, Cassius, but even to his murder victim, Caesar, as well as his chief rival, Antony. What makes Brutus so appealing, however, is a quality which h... Read More about The Compassionate Stoic: Brutus as Accidental Hero.