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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... Nature , but between the classical and the ' native ' ; and that contrast involves a pastiche of the characteristic styles of the two authors , not surprising in a poem devoted to literary parody and allusion . In the lines on Jonson ...
... Nature , but between the classical and the ' native ' ; and that contrast involves a pastiche of the characteristic styles of the two authors , not surprising in a poem devoted to literary parody and allusion . In the lines on Jonson ...
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... nature ' , to which indeed it is sometimes opposed : for 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 ...
... nature ' , to which indeed it is sometimes opposed : for 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 ...
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... nature , I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . ( V.ii.8-13 ) 5 In one version of the Prometheus myth he is the giver of fire , in another the instigator of human life itself . Shakespeare's allusion ...
... nature , I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . ( V.ii.8-13 ) 5 In one version of the Prometheus myth he is the giver of fire , in another the instigator of human life itself . Shakespeare's allusion ...
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... Nature only helped him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greeks , nor Latins imitate , Nor once from vulgar languages translate ... So have I seen when Caesar would appear ... how ...
... Nature only helped him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greeks , nor Latins imitate , Nor once from vulgar languages translate ... So have I seen when Caesar would appear ... how ...
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... nature ; he looked inwards , and found her there ' . Pope praised the supposedly untutored Homer in just these terms . Echoing Dryden he contrasted Homer's ' invention ' with Virgil's ' judgement ' . Historical credibility is seldom ...
... nature ; he looked inwards , and found her there ' . Pope praised the supposedly untutored Homer in just these terms . Echoing Dryden he contrasted Homer's ' invention ' with Virgil's ' judgement ' . Historical credibility is seldom ...
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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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