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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... ideas . This is simply a matter of record . That so narrow an education must have been a disaster will be agreed by all ; the only problem is that it provoked one of the two or three richest flowerings in the history of Western ...
... ideas . This is simply a matter of record . That so narrow an education must have been a disaster will be agreed by all ; the only problem is that it provoked one of the two or three richest flowerings in the history of Western ...
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... ideas by examining the role of the Stoic virtue of constancy in a number of plays ; a pagan moral world provides a context for understanding , and responding to , a number of key scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a ...
... ideas by examining the role of the Stoic virtue of constancy in a number of plays ; a pagan moral world provides a context for understanding , and responding to , a number of key scenes and speeches . Here it is important to issue a ...
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... ideas , so that ' Promethean heat ' comes to mean something like ' vital spark ' or ' flame of life ' ; or it may simply give a sense of ' original fire ' , a fire that kindles where no fire exists . The striking reference is embedded ...
... ideas , so that ' Promethean heat ' comes to mean something like ' vital spark ' or ' flame of life ' ; or it may simply give a sense of ' original fire ' , a fire that kindles where no fire exists . The striking reference is embedded ...
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... idea of a place for lovers in Elysium is first found in Tibullus I.3.57ff . , and often features in neo - Latin poetry , but Shakespeare did not need a ' source ' to weave his beautifully imaginative fantasy . If Shakespeare was not a ...
... idea of a place for lovers in Elysium is first found in Tibullus I.3.57ff . , and often features in neo - Latin poetry , but Shakespeare did not need a ' source ' to weave his beautifully imaginative fantasy . If Shakespeare was not a ...
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... idea of unprovable sources or allusions ; if Shakespeare had read all that is proposed for him , he would not have ... ideas ' and preferences are in fact commonplaces . Shakespeare used to be presented as a systematic conservative ...
... idea of unprovable sources or allusions ; if Shakespeare had read all that is proposed for him , he would not have ... ideas ' and preferences are in fact commonplaces . Shakespeare used to be presented as a systematic conservative ...
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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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