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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... example , none of Shakespeare's early Ovidian works , not even the Dream , equals the quality of Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Shakespeare matched Ovid in one scene in Cymbeline , and surpassed him in a speech in The Tempest . And although he ...
... example , none of Shakespeare's early Ovidian works , not even the Dream , equals the quality of Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Shakespeare matched Ovid in one scene in Cymbeline , and surpassed him in a speech in The Tempest . And although he ...
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... example , or Euripides ' Alcestis and Ion - were assigned to other genres . The importance of romance as part of high literary culture is thus largely a post - classical phenomenon , part of the story of the Middle Ages and of the ...
... example , or Euripides ' Alcestis and Ion - were assigned to other genres . The importance of romance as part of high literary culture is thus largely a post - classical phenomenon , part of the story of the Middle Ages and of the ...
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... example , in our discussion of the style of the Roman plays ) . The book is designed , in the first instance , for university students , both those reading Classics who wish to know something of the classical heritage in English ...
... example , in our discussion of the style of the Roman plays ) . The book is designed , in the first instance , for university students , both those reading Classics who wish to know something of the classical heritage in English ...
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... example in Antony and Cleopatra II.ii.200f . ( “ O'er - picturing that Venus where we see / The fancy outwork nature ' ) fancy , man's creative faculty , amounts almost to art , or at least to an aspect of art . That Shakespeare is ...
... example in Antony and Cleopatra II.ii.200f . ( “ O'er - picturing that Venus where we see / The fancy outwork nature ' ) fancy , man's creative faculty , amounts almost to art , or at least to an aspect of art . That Shakespeare is ...
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... example , Housman contrasts the disciplined Milton , ' steeped through and through with classical literature ' , with the unlearned Shakespeare , who constantly descends into what ( in Housman's view ) is atrocious Elizabethanism ...
... example , Housman contrasts the disciplined Milton , ' steeped through and through with classical literature ' , with the unlearned Shakespeare , who constantly descends into what ( in Housman's view ) is atrocious Elizabethanism ...
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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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