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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... speech in The Tempest . And although he read at least some of the Aeneid , and echoed it , his poetic encounter with Virgil was not a profoundly productive one , in contrast to Dante's or Milton's . This book is not designed as a ...
... speech in The Tempest . And although he read at least some of the Aeneid , and echoed it , his poetic encounter with Virgil was not a profoundly productive one , in contrast to Dante's or Milton's . This book is not designed as a ...
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... 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.
... 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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... speech before he kills Desdemona : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore Should I repent me ; but once put out thine , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is that ...
... speech before he kills Desdemona : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore Should I repent me ; but once put out thine , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is that ...
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... some new day they would not brook a line Of tedious , though well - laboured , Catiline ... ( Thomson , p . 25 ) INTRODUCTION 6 Passages like Prospero's renunciation speech show that Digges 4 SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF ANTIQUITY.
... some new day they would not brook a line Of tedious , though well - laboured , Catiline ... ( Thomson , p . 25 ) INTRODUCTION 6 Passages like Prospero's renunciation speech show that Digges 4 SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF ANTIQUITY.
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An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. INTRODUCTION 6 Passages like Prospero's renunciation speech show that Digges ' first point is simply incorrect , and remind us of the tendentiousness of this whole tribute . In similar vein Rowe ...
An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. INTRODUCTION 6 Passages like Prospero's renunciation speech show that Digges ' first point is simply incorrect , and remind us of the tendentiousness of this whole tribute . In similar vein Rowe ...
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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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