Shakespeare's Mythological Invention

Aeneid Aphthonian Aphthonius appeal to pity audience authors bookish imagery borrowed chapter character chreia Cicero Cicero's classical myth classical mythology common commonplace imagery comparison copia creative Dido discussion dramatic edition Elizabethan elocutio eloquence emotions Erasmus ethopoeia euhemerism example exemplum expression eyes garden garden-metaphor Hamlet Hecuba Henry Hercules Herennium historical humanistic hyperbolic Iago Iago's icon illustration imaginative insight King Lear Latin classics learned lessons literary Loeb London Love's Labour's Lost matter medieval Merchant of Venice Mercury metaphor Montaigne moral myth and legend mytho mythological allusions mythological figures mythological imagery oration Orpheus Othello Ovid Ovid's Palingenius passage passion persuasion play poets precise source Primaudaye probably Professor Progymnasmata Quintilian Renaissance rhetoric books rhetorical tradition scene sententia Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's imagery Shakespeare's invention Small Latine speech stage student style suggest T. W. Baldwin theatre theme thou topics traditional values translation Troilus Virgil virtue world-stage