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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... 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 problem when one is dealing with a writer as ix PREFACE.
... 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 problem when one is dealing with a writer as ix PREFACE.
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... particular plays . All we claim is that on occasion some knowledge of Stoicism may sharpen our sense of a passage , or reveal a significant pattern ( though it will only be one among many ) . In the same way our account of Shakespeare's ...
... particular plays . All we claim is that on occasion some knowledge of Stoicism may sharpen our sense of a passage , or reveal a significant pattern ( though it will only be one among many ) . In the same way our account of Shakespeare's ...
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... particular writers at a particular time and place . Accordingly we have left the text largely as it was in 1989 , making only minor corrections and adjustments . C.A.M. Bristol , July 1993 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We have re - used some ...
... particular writers at a particular time and place . Accordingly we have left the text largely as it was in 1989 , making only minor corrections and adjustments . C.A.M. Bristol , July 1993 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We have re - used some ...
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... particular , ' fancy ' means imagination , and is not equivalent to ' 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 ...
... particular , ' fancy ' means imagination , and is not equivalent to ' 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 ...
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... particular in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare gives us a rounded portrayal of the pedantic schoolteacher Holofernes , with his devotion to Ovid and fondness for using triplets : ' Let me hear a staff , a stanza , a verse ; lege ...
... particular in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare gives us a rounded portrayal of the pedantic schoolteacher Holofernes , with his devotion to Ovid and fondness for using triplets : ' Let me hear a staff , a stanza , a verse ; lege ...
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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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