UID:
almafu_9959236709702883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-15731-3
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9786610157310
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0-203-98603-2
Content:
Against a recent tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's classical learning, this study examines how the playwright used his relatively restricted knowledge to create an unusually convincing picture of Rome.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; SMALL LATIN; IMITARI IS NOTHING; Imitatio of Plot; Imitatio of Classical Loci; Imitatio of a Speech out of Ovid; Imitatio or furtum? Cleopatra's barge; SENECA BY CANDLELIGHT; 2 SHAKESPEARE'S OVID; PHILOMELA IN TITUS AND CYMBELINE; OVIDIAN NARRATIVE; OVID IN FAIRYLAND; Metamorphosis; Art; Pyramus and Thisbe; The Style of the Lovers' Couplets; Faerie; Aetiology; Echoes; PYGMALION IN THE WINTER'S TALE; MYTHS OUT OF OVID; 3 SHAKESPEARE'S TROY; SHAKESPEARE'S ILIAD?; HOMERIC TRACES IN TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
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WarDebate; Value; Fame; Time; SHAKESPEARE'S TROJAN STYLE; 4 SHAKESPEARE'S ROME; THE USES OF ANACHRONISM; SHAKESPEARE'S AND OTHER ROMES; MORE AN ANTIQUE ROMAN; IN SEARCH OF A ROMAN STYLE; 5 SHAKESPEARE'S STOICISM; CONSTANCY IN THE RENAISSANCE; SHAKESPEARE AND THE CONSTANT (WO)MAN; Sonnet 94; Hamlet; Macbetb; Coriolanus; Antony and Cleopatra; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (mainly for students); INDEX; INDEX OF PASSAGES
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-16198-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-10426-2
Language:
English
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