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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... matters classical . To the Elizabethans education meant essentially the study of Latin ; inevitably as a result much ... matter of record . That so narrow an education must have been a disaster will be agreed by all ; the only problem is ...
... matters classical . To the Elizabethans education meant essentially the study of Latin ; inevitably as a result much ... matter of record . That so narrow an education must have been a disaster will be agreed by all ; the only problem is ...
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... matters which particularly interest us . In the introductory chapter we look at three long - discussed issues : the extent of Shakespeare's classical knowledge , the doctrine of imitation , and the influence of Seneca on English ...
... matters which particularly interest us . In the introductory chapter we look at three long - discussed issues : the extent of Shakespeare's classical knowledge , the doctrine of imitation , and the influence of Seneca on English ...
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... matters not least . Since 1989 much new work even on the comparatively limited area of Shakespeare's use of the classical heritage has appeared , including three books , Jonathan Bates's Shakespeare and Ovid ( Oxford , Clarendon Press ...
... matters not least . Since 1989 much new work even on the comparatively limited area of Shakespeare's use of the classical heritage has appeared , including three books , Jonathan Bates's Shakespeare and Ovid ( Oxford , Clarendon Press ...
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... ' . Chesterton comments : the classical spirit is no matter of names or allusions ... this profound resonance , striking such echoes out of such hollows and abysses , could not thus be achieved without a 3 INTRODUCTION.
... ' . Chesterton comments : the classical spirit is no matter of names or allusions ... this profound resonance , striking such echoes out of such hollows and abysses , could not thus be achieved without a 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... matter became entangled in the question of the rival merits of Shakespeare and 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 ...
... matter became entangled in the question of the rival merits of Shakespeare and 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 ...
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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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Achilles Actaeon ancient Antony Antony and Cleopatra appear argues argument audience becomes Brutus Caesar called character classical Cleopatra comes context contrast Coriolanus critics death drama edition effect Elizabethan English Essays example fact gives Greek hand heroic Homer idea Iliad imagination imitation influence interest Jonson kind language later Latin learned least less lines literature live London look lovers Macbeth manner matter means Metamorphoses mind moral moving nature op.cit original Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Oxford particular partly passage perhaps person picture Plautus play poem poet poetry political present reference Renaissance rhetorical Roman Rome scene seems seen Seneca sense Shake Shakespeare similar speech Stoic story Studies style suggests things thought Titus tradition tragedy translation Troilus turns University Press Venus verse virtue whole writing