SOURCE: "Shakespeare and Euripides (I): Tragic Passion," in The Origins of Shakespeare, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1977, pp. 85-107.
In his book The Origins of Shakespeare, Jones studies the relationship between Shakespeare's Tudor plays and the cultural milieu in which they emerged. In the following excerpt, he presents evidence that several plays of Euripides were widely known and admired in sixteenth-century England, and notes structural and textual similarities between Titus Andronicus and Euripides' play Hecuba.
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