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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... story of the Middle Ages and of the vernaculars , not of the classical tradition more narrowly defined . ( Significantly , in the Renaissance Heliodorus ' Aethiopica was read as a kind of prose epic . ) In any case treatment of ...
... story of the Middle Ages and of the vernaculars , not of the classical tradition more narrowly defined . ( Significantly , in the Renaissance Heliodorus ' Aethiopica was read as a kind of prose epic . ) In any case treatment of ...
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... story reported by John Aubrey , deriving from William Beeston , the son of one of Shakespeare's fellow actors , that Shakespeare had been a schoolmaster in the country , which showed that ' he understood Latin pretty well ' . Whether ...
... story reported by John Aubrey , deriving from William Beeston , the son of one of Shakespeare's fellow actors , that Shakespeare had been a schoolmaster in the country , which showed that ' he understood Latin pretty well ' . Whether ...
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... story of Lucretia in Livy for the young princess Mary both for delight and to teach her about life.12 Secondly , it was intensely rhetorical . It was an Erasmian doctrine that language was the basis of knowledge ; hence the focus on ...
... story of Lucretia in Livy for the young princess Mary both for delight and to teach her about life.12 Secondly , it was intensely rhetorical . It was an Erasmian doctrine that language was the basis of knowledge ; hence the focus on ...
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... stories , ' The Gardener ' , with an allusion to St. John's Gospel ( ' she went away , supposing him to be the gardener ' ) ; the reader who misses this cannot properly interpret . The allusion suggests that the heroine has encountered ...
... stories , ' The Gardener ' , with an allusion to St. John's Gospel ( ' she went away , supposing him to be the gardener ' ) ; the reader who misses this cannot properly interpret . The allusion suggests that the heroine has encountered ...
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Contenido
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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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