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  • Shakespeare and Homer

  • from Key Topics
  • Edited by Corinne Ondine Pache
  • Edited in association with Casey Dué , University of Houston, Susan Lupack , Macquarie University, Sydney, Robert Lamberton, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Homer
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 598-599

  • Summary

    Prior to the appearance of his contemporary George Chapman’s translations, beginning in 1598, Shakespeare shows no knowledge of Homer. The single play that might show the influence of Chapman’s Homer is Troilus and Cressida (quarto 1609) and scholarly debate about the existence or extent of such influence continues. Here, however, the principal source is clearly Chaucer and outside of this play there is no reason to think that Shakespeare read Homer at all.