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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... writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Martindale , Charles Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity : Introductory Essay . - New ed I. Title II . Matindale , Michelle 822.3'3 Library of Congress ...
... writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Martindale , Charles Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity : Introductory Essay . - New ed I. Title II . Matindale , Michelle 822.3'3 Library of Congress ...
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... because 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.
... because 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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... 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.
... 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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An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. particular problem when one is dealing with a writer as protean as Shakespeare . We would not claim that our approach is better than any other , still less that it affords the only frame of ...
An Introductory Essay Michelle Martindale. particular problem when one is dealing with a writer as protean as Shakespeare . We would not claim that our approach is better than any other , still less that it affords the only frame of ...
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... writers at a particular time and place . Accordingly we have left the text largely as it was in 1989 , making only minor corrections and adjustments . C.A.M. Bristol , July 1993 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We have re - used some material from ...
... writers at a particular time and place . Accordingly we have left the text largely as it was in 1989 , making only minor corrections and adjustments . C.A.M. Bristol , July 1993 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We have re - used some material from ...
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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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Achilles Actaeon ancient Antony Antony and Cleopatra appear argues argument audience becomes Brutus Caesar called character classical Cleopatra comes context contrast Coriolanus critics death drama edition effect Elizabethan English Essays example fact gives Greek hand heroic Homer idea Iliad imagination imitation influence interest Jonson kind language later Latin learned least less lines literature live London look lovers Macbeth manner matter means Metamorphoses mind moral moving nature op.cit original Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Oxford particular partly passage perhaps person picture Plautus play poem poet poetry political present reference Renaissance rhetorical Roman Rome scene seems seen Seneca sense Shake Shakespeare similar speech Stoic story Studies style suggests things thought Titus tradition tragedy translation Troilus turns University Press Venus verse virtue whole writing