Thanks for Including

Thank you for including this excerpt. As a reviewer for books on Shakespeare for the Renaissance Quarterly, I’ve recommended that Lewis’ book be reviewed.

The Greek tragedians are highly relevant to the study of Shakespeare’s tragedies. He read them in Greek, as is being increasingly acknowledged. In fact, a scholar has discovered Shakespeare’s annotations in Greek books in the library of Audley End in England. Shakespeare wrote notes in the margins — in Greek — that were then used almost verbatim as he was writing plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar.