Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory EssayRoutledge, 2005 M07 15 - 240 páginas Although a third of his plays are set in the ancient world and he constantly used classical mythology, history, and ideas, Shakespeare received a simple grammar school education and did not have a scholar's knowledge of the classics. The critical implications of this are the subject of Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity. Against a recent academic tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning, the authors investigate how he used his comparatively restricted knowledge to create, for example, an unusually convincing picture of Rome, and analyse, by presenting us with careful readings of specific passages, the styles Shakespeare employed under the influence of classical writers, especially Ovid, Seneca, and (in translation) Homer and Plutarch. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 64
Página viii
... English studies , there has been a flood of publications on most subjects and especially on Shakespeare : there are 2,487 items listed in Velz's Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition alone . No one , even if she or he wanted , could ...
... English studies , there has been a flood of publications on most subjects and especially on Shakespeare : there are 2,487 items listed in Velz's Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition alone . No one , even if she or he wanted , could ...
Página ix
... English Renaissance drama ; we resist the modern tendency both to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning and to downgrade the importance of Seneca . In chapter 2 we explore the world of classical mythology , which Shakespeare utilized ...
... English Renaissance drama ; we resist the modern tendency both to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning and to downgrade the importance of Seneca . In chapter 2 we explore the world of classical mythology , which Shakespeare utilized ...
Página x
... English literature , and those reading English who would like to understand more of the debt of Renaissance authors to the ancients . We hope that it will also be of use to advanced sixthformers and to their teachers , and that there ...
... English literature , and those reading English who would like to understand more of the debt of Renaissance authors to the ancients . We hope that it will also be of use to advanced sixthformers and to their teachers , and that there ...
Página xii
... English poetry : Ovid , Horace and others ' , in Richard Jenkyns ( ed . ) The Legacy of Rome : A New Appraisal , Oxford University Press , 1992 , pp . 177-213 . 1 INTRODUCTION SMALL LATIN It is customary to begin discussion XII ...
... English poetry : Ovid , Horace and others ' , in Richard Jenkyns ( ed . ) The Legacy of Rome : A New Appraisal , Oxford University Press , 1992 , pp . 177-213 . 1 INTRODUCTION SMALL LATIN It is customary to begin discussion XII ...
Página 1
... English language and inspiration . The dominant contrast is not between Art and Nature , but between the classical and the ' native ' ; and that contrast involves a pastiche of the characteristic styles of the two authors , not ...
... English language and inspiration . The dominant contrast is not between Art and Nature , but between the classical and the ' native ' ; and that contrast involves a pastiche of the characteristic styles of the two authors , not ...
Contenido
1 | |
SHAKESPEARES OVID | 45 |
SHAKESPEARES TROY | 91 |
SHAKESPEARES ROME | 121 |
SHAKESPEARES STOICISM | 165 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay Charles Martindale,Michelle Martindale Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay Charles Martindale Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles Actaeon ancient Antony Antony and Cleopatra appear argues argument audience becomes Brutus Caesar called character classical Cleopatra comes context contrast Coriolanus critics death drama edition effect Elizabethan English Essays example fact gives Greek hand heroic Homer idea Iliad imagination imitation influence interest Jonson kind language later Latin learned least less lines literature live London look lovers Macbeth manner matter means Metamorphoses mind moral moving nature op.cit original Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Oxford particular partly passage perhaps person picture Plautus play poem poet poetry political present reference Renaissance rhetorical Roman Rome scene seems seen Seneca sense Shake Shakespeare similar speech Stoic story Studies style suggests things thought Titus tradition tragedy translation Troilus turns University Press Venus verse virtue whole writing