Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, 398 p.

Detailed study of the importance of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Medieval and Renaissance literature that contains a lengthy discussion of Shakespeare's treatment of this material.

Bono, Barbara J. Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984, 264 p.

Study of the Vergilian influence in European literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance with a particular emphasis on Shakepseare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Braden, Gordon. Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, 260 p.

Analysis of the Senecan and Stoic presence in Renaissance tragedy, focusing in particular on Seneca's autarchic style of selfhood and rhetoric of power.

Brower, Reuben A. Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971, 424 p.

Highly regarded exploration of "probable analogies between the Shakespearian heroic and the Graeco-Roman heroic," containing detailed information on Shakespeare's sources.

Bush, Douglas. "Classical Myth in Shakespeare's Plays." In Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson, pp. 65-85. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.

Study of Shakespeare's use of classical allusions throughout his career.

Cantor, Paul A. Shakespeare's Rome Republic and Empire. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976, 228 p.

Study of Shakespeare's conception of Rome that focuses on Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.

Gesner, Carol. Shakespeare and the Greek Romance: A Study of Origins. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970, 216 p.

Explores Shakespeare's use of Greek romance material in his comedies and final plays.

Jones, Emrys. The Origins of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977, 290 p.

Highly regarded study of Shakespeare's intellectual background that argues for possible Euripidean influences in such works as Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar.

Keach, William. Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Their Contemporaries. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1977, 277 p.

Analysis of Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in the light of Ovid's poetry and Elizabethan Ovidian narratives.

Kayser, John R., and Lettieri, Ronald J. "The Last of all the Romans': Shakespeare's Commentary on Classical Republicanism." CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 9, No. 2 (Winter 1980): 197-227.

Argues that Shakespeare's Julius Caesar contains a critique of Republican Rome: "Through his characterization of Brutus, Shakespeare demonstrates that lack of sufficient consciousness or reason ends in human tragedy and political disaster."

Miola, Robert S. Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 224 p.

Examination of Seneca's influence on Shakespeare "both in stylistic minutiae and in oblique, audacious effects."

Riehle, Wolfgang. Shakespeare, Plautus and the Humanist Tradition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990, 309 p.

Analysis of Shakespeare's interest in Plautus and the New Comedy, containing a detailed discussion of The Comedy of Errors.

Salingar, Leo. Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974, 356 p.

Important study of Shakespeare's handling of classical, medieval, and Renaissance comic traditions.

Siegel, Paul N. "Shakespeare's View of Roman History." In his Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays: A Marxist Approach, pp. 100-34. Rutherford, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1986.

Marxist analysis of Shakespeare's handling of Roman history in Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Cymbeline.

Spencer, T. J. B. "Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Romans." Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production 10 (1957): 27-38.

Influential article in which the critic asserts: "I take it that Dryden and Pope were right; that Shakespeare knew what he was doing in writing Roman plays; that part of his intention was a serious effort at representing the Roman scene as genuinely as he could."

Thomas, Vivian. Shakespeare's Roman Worlds. London: Routledge, 1989, 243 p.

General study aimed at demonstrating "how a clear understanding of Shakespeare's exploration and articulation of Roman values provides an invaluable means of gaining fresh critical insights into the Roman plays."

Thomson, J. A. K. Shakespeare and the Classics. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952, 254 p.

Influential account of Shakespeare's knowledge of Greek and Latin sources.

Velz, John W. "The Ovidian Soliloquy in Shakespeare." Shakespeare Studies: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews XVIII (1986): 1-24.

Examines the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on Shakespeare's meditative soliloquies, paying particular attention to The Rape of Lucrece and Measure for Measure

Wilders, John. The Lost Garden: A View of Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays. London: Macmillan Press, 1978, 154 p.

Valuable study of Shakespeare's conception of history and human nature.