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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... a trivial one it was perhaps best adapted to the doing of trivial things - such as writing immortal plays . ( Baldwin , vol . 2 , p . 674 ) CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION Small Latin Imitari is nothing.
... a trivial one it was perhaps best adapted to the doing of trivial things - such as writing immortal plays . ( Baldwin , vol . 2 , p . 674 ) CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION Small Latin Imitari is nothing.
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... perhaps enough to struggle through easy texts like the New Testament . According to Nicholas Rowe's Life ( 1709 ) , Shakespeare went to ' free - school ' ' for some time ' , but was withdrawn because of his father's straitened ...
... perhaps enough to struggle through easy texts like the New Testament . According to Nicholas Rowe's Life ( 1709 ) , Shakespeare went to ' free - school ' ' for some time ' , but was withdrawn because of his father's straitened ...
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... Perhaps his manuscript had the impossible perdicibus , but no scholar would have been fooled . Yet Chaucer was clearly inspired by Latin poets , in particular by Ovid , his ancient alter ego . One must also understand the state of ...
... Perhaps his manuscript had the impossible perdicibus , but no scholar would have been fooled . Yet Chaucer was clearly inspired by Latin poets , in particular by Ovid , his ancient alter ego . One must also understand the state of ...
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... perhaps to make it more acceptable to post - Romantic sensibilities , and implying that knowledge of the original context of any reminiscence is an indispensable component of meaning . This is misleading , for the traditional metaphors ...
... perhaps to make it more acceptable to post - Romantic sensibilities , and implying that knowledge of the original context of any reminiscence is an indispensable component of meaning . This is misleading , for the traditional metaphors ...
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... perhaps the first unambiguously Renaissance figure in English literature , we encounter no melancholy , no great recognition of a gulf to be bridged , but rather a robust type of classicism which cements Rome on to the vernacular . In ...
... perhaps the first unambiguously Renaissance figure in English literature , we encounter no melancholy , no great recognition of a gulf to be bridged , but rather a robust type of classicism which cements Rome on to the vernacular . In ...
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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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