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. |
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... Jonson . So , for the sake of variety , let us open with some well - known lines by Milton , a devotee of Shakespeare but one who had no reason for partiality over the issue : Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned ...
... Jonson . So , for the sake of variety , let us open with some well - known lines by Milton , a devotee of Shakespeare but one who had no reason for partiality over the issue : Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned ...
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... Jonson . Milton is certainly not trying to score points for Jonson against Shakespeare , or vice versa . Let us return to Jonson and his celebrated tribute from the First Folio " To the Memory of My Beloved , The Author , Mr. William ...
... Jonson . Milton is certainly not trying to score points for Jonson against Shakespeare , or vice versa . Let us return to Jonson and his celebrated tribute from the First Folio " To the Memory of My Beloved , The Author , Mr. William ...
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... Jonson and of the superiority of original genius to stale imitation . For example , Leonard Digges wrote in 1640 : Next Nature only helped him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from ...
... Jonson and of the superiority of original genius to stale imitation . For example , Leonard Digges wrote in 1640 : Next Nature only helped him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from ...
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... Jonson and John Hales , a Fellow of Eton College , at which Hales , in answer to Jonson's criticisms of Shakespeare , pointedly told him that ' if Mr. Shakespeare had not read the ancients , he had likewise not stolen anything from them ...
... Jonson and John Hales , a Fellow of Eton College , at which Hales , in answer to Jonson's criticisms of Shakespeare , pointedly told him that ' if Mr. Shakespeare had not read the ancients , he had likewise not stolen anything from them ...
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... Jonson , his friend ... besides that he had no imaginable temptation to falsehood , wrote at a time when the character and acquisitions of Shakespeare were known to multitudes . His evidence ought therefore to decide the controversy ...
... Jonson , his friend ... besides that he had no imaginable temptation to falsehood , wrote at a time when the character and acquisitions of Shakespeare were known to multitudes . His evidence ought therefore to decide the controversy ...
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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 |
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