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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... context for understanding , and responding to , a number of key scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a caveat which applies to this book as a whole . All critical methods are necessarily partial , and this is a particular ...
... context for understanding , and responding to , a number of key scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a caveat which applies to this book as a whole . All critical methods are necessarily partial , and this is a particular ...
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... , the public poet shows none . If Jonson had made his well - known comment privately , he might have meant by it ' virtually no Latin and no Greek at all , but in this wholly eulogistic context the 2 SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF ANTIQUITY.
... , the public poet shows none . If Jonson had made his well - known comment privately , he might have meant by it ' virtually no Latin and no Greek at all , but in this wholly eulogistic context the 2 SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF ANTIQUITY.
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An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. at all , but in this wholly eulogistic context the words should be taken without irony . In consequence ' less Greek ' ought to imply that Shakespeare had some Greek , perhaps enough to struggle ...
An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. at all , but in this wholly eulogistic context the words should be taken without irony . In consequence ' less Greek ' ought to imply that Shakespeare had some Greek , perhaps enough to struggle ...
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... context . Shakespeare went to grammar school , where he spent a good deal of time , by modern standards , learning Latin . But he did not proceed to university , and he did not make any private , systematic study of the ancients in the ...
... context . Shakespeare went to grammar school , where he spent a good deal of time , by modern standards , learning Latin . But he did not proceed to university , and he did not make any private , systematic study of the ancients in the ...
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... context of any reminiscence is an indispensable component of meaning . This is misleading , for the traditional metaphors used in discussions of imitation suggest rather creative assimilation than allusion . The process resembles the ...
... context of any reminiscence is an indispensable component of meaning . This is misleading , for the traditional metaphors used in discussions of imitation suggest rather creative assimilation than allusion . The process resembles the ...
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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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