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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... sense of a passage , or reveal a significant pattern ( though it will only be one among many ) . In the same way our ... sense of proportion , need to keep an eye on the wider picture , and a book on Shakespeare and the Classics cannot ...
... sense of a passage , or reveal a significant pattern ( though it will only be one among many ) . In the same way our ... sense of proportion , need to keep an eye on the wider picture , and a book on Shakespeare and the Classics cannot ...
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... sense . In 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 ...
... sense . In 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 ...
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... sense of ' original fire ' , a fire that kindles where no fire exists . The striking reference is embedded in a smoothly - rolling classicizing period , culminating in a fine Latinism ' relume ' . Chesterton comments : the classical ...
... sense of ' original fire ' , a fire that kindles where no fire exists . The striking reference is embedded in a smoothly - rolling classicizing period , culminating in a fine Latinism ' relume ' . Chesterton comments : the classical ...
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... sense , of course , a man might say what Othello says . He might say , ' If I kill this woman , how the devil am I to bring her to life again ' ; but hardly with majesty ; hardly with mystery ; not precisely with all those meanings and ...
... sense , of course , a man might say what Othello says . He might say , ' If I kill this woman , how the devil am I to bring her to life again ' ; but hardly with majesty ; hardly with mystery ; not precisely with all those meanings and ...
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... sense that Darwin ' proved ' evolution . He collected a vast number of tiny data which show that the classical knowledge displayed in Shakespeare's plays is exactly what one would expect of someone who had been to grammar school ; of ...
... sense that Darwin ' proved ' evolution . He collected a vast number of tiny data which show that the classical knowledge displayed in Shakespeare's plays is exactly what one would expect of someone who had been to grammar school ; of ...
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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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