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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... argument about the extent of Shakespeare's classical knowledge thus started in his own day and has continued until ours . Contributors to it are often arguing at cross purposes . For example , Housman contrasts the disciplined Milton ...
... argument about the extent of Shakespeare's classical knowledge thus started in his own day and has continued until ours . Contributors to it are often arguing at cross purposes . For example , Housman contrasts the disciplined Milton ...
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... argument is seldom conducted in a neutral or disinterested spirit . All too often one can hear the sound of the grinding of axes . To some readers , particularly in the eighteenth century , it seemed that the honour of England required ...
... argument is seldom conducted in a neutral or disinterested spirit . All too often one can hear the sound of the grinding of axes . To some readers , particularly in the eighteenth century , it seemed that the honour of England required ...
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... argument is frequently misunderstood : so J.A.K. Thomson claims that Baldwin only tells us in very great detail what Shakespeare could have learned at school ' . " But Baldwin proved his case rather in the sense that Darwin ' proved ...
... argument is frequently misunderstood : so J.A.K. Thomson claims that Baldwin only tells us in very great detail what Shakespeare could have learned at school ' . " But Baldwin proved his case rather in the sense that Darwin ' proved ...
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... argument for treating Chaucer as medieval , and Spenser as Renaissance ) . There is little sense of strain in a poet like Spenser , rather a relaxed fusion of earlier vernacular and newer humanist traditions . There was less melancholy ...
... argument for treating Chaucer as medieval , and Spenser as Renaissance ) . There is little sense of strain in a poet like Spenser , rather a relaxed fusion of earlier vernacular and newer humanist traditions . There was less melancholy ...
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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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