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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... it was 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.
... it was 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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... things , move on , in Shakespearean matters not least . Since 1989 much new work even on the comparatively limited area of Shakespeare's use of the classical heritage has appeared , including three books , Jonathan Bates's Shakespeare ...
... things , move on , in Shakespearean matters not least . Since 1989 much new work even on the comparatively limited area of Shakespeare's use of the classical heritage has appeared , including three books , Jonathan Bates's Shakespeare ...
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... thing , the common thing ; even the vulgar thing ' . The argument is seldom conducted in a neutral or disinterested spirit . All too often one can hear the sound of the grinding of axes . To some readers , particularly in the eighteenth ...
... thing , the common thing ; even the vulgar thing ' . The argument is seldom conducted in a neutral or disinterested spirit . All too often one can hear the sound of the grinding of axes . To some readers , particularly in the eighteenth ...
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... things a long way off . And here observe how literature actually works . Parrot critics say that Sohrab is a poem for classicists , to be enjoyed only by those who recognize the Homeric echoes . But I ... knew nothing of Homer . For me ...
... things a long way off . And here observe how literature actually works . Parrot critics say that Sohrab is a poem for classicists , to be enjoyed only by those who recognize the Homeric echoes . But I ... knew nothing of Homer . For me ...
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... things . There is a pre - echo of that fuller sense of psychological readjustment in those characters who are involved in recognition , of the sea- cruel or kind - as a place of trial where men are lost and found , characteristic of ...
... things . There is a pre - echo of that fuller sense of psychological readjustment in those characters who are involved in recognition , of the sea- cruel or kind - as a place of trial where men are lost and found , characteristic 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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