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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... key scenes and 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.
... key scenes and 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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... whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greeks , nor Latins imitate , Nor once from vulgar languages translate ... So have I seen when Caesar would appear ... how the audience Were ravished , with what wonder ...
... whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greeks , nor Latins imitate , Nor once from vulgar languages translate ... So have I seen when Caesar would appear ... how the audience Were ravished , with what wonder ...
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... whole tribute . In similar vein Rowe reports a conversation of the poets Suckling , Davenant , Endymion Porter , Jonson and John Hales , a Fellow of Eton College , at which Hales , in answer to Jonson's criticisms of Shakespeare ...
... whole tribute . In similar vein Rowe reports a conversation of the poets Suckling , Davenant , Endymion Porter , Jonson and John Hales , a Fellow of Eton College , at which Hales , in answer to Jonson's criticisms of Shakespeare ...
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... whole range of classical sources in the original . On the other hand , Shakespeare's knowledge of mythology was far greater than that of most university students of Classics today . Admittedly he occasionally makes mistakes . In 2 Henry ...
... whole range of classical sources in the original . On the other hand , Shakespeare's knowledge of mythology was far greater than that of most university students of Classics today . Admittedly he occasionally makes mistakes . In 2 Henry ...
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... Whole troops of lovers ' ghosts shall flock about us , And all the train be ours . However Shakespeare knew what he was about ; the idea of a place for lovers in Elysium is first found in Tibullus I.3.57ff . , and often features in neo ...
... Whole troops of lovers ' ghosts shall flock about us , And all the train be ours . However Shakespeare knew what he was about ; the idea of a place for lovers in Elysium is first found in Tibullus I.3.57ff . , and often features in neo ...
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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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