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Shakespeare and Greece
Author | : Alison Findlay,Vassiliki Markidou |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474244275 |
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This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealised pinnacle of Western philosophy, tragedy, democracy, heroic human endeavour and, at the same time, an example of decadence: a fallen state, currently under Ottoman control, and therefore an exotic, dangerous, 'Other' in the most disturbing senses of the word. Indeed, while Britain was struggling to establish itself as a nation state and an imperial authority by emulating classical Greek models, this ambition was radically unsettled by early modern Greece's subjection to the Ottoman Empire, which rendered Europe's eastern borders dramatically vulnerable. Focussing, for the first time, on Shakespeare's 'Greek' texts (Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen), the volume considers how Shakespeare's use of antiquity and Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country and its empire.
Shakespeare s Greek Drama Secret
Author | : Myron Stagman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781443824668 |
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To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading!! This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background. Not only should this prove the Shakespeare-Greek Drama connection, but that William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama. 3. “Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums” Many of us associate Lady Macbeth’s special temper with some of the most blood-curdling lines in literature: I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. Shakespeare’s precise action image appears in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, from verses spoken by Clytemnestra. She says to Agamemnon: It was not of my own free will but by force that Thou didst take and wed me, after slaying Tantalus, My former husband, and dashing my babe on the ground alive, When thou hadst torn him from my breast with brutal violence. The derivation of Lady Macbeth’s dashing image cannot be in doubt.
Shakespeare and Greece
Author | : Alison Findlay,Vassiliki Markidou |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474244268 |
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This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealised pinnacle of Western philosophy, tragedy, democracy, heroic human endeavour and, at the same time, an example of decadence: a fallen state, currently under Ottoman control, and therefore an exotic, dangerous, 'Other' in the most disturbing senses of the word. Indeed, while Britain was struggling to establish itself as a nation state and an imperial authority by emulating classical Greek models, this ambition was radically unsettled by early modern Greece's subjection to the Ottoman Empire, which rendered Europe's eastern borders dramatically vulnerable. Focussing, for the first time, on Shakespeare's 'Greek' texts (Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen), the volume considers how Shakespeare's use of antiquity and Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country and its empire.
Timon of Athens
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BNC:1001933383 |
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Shakespeare and the Greek Romance
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Author | : Carol Gesner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0835785947 |
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The State in Shakespeare s Greek and Roman Plays
Author | : James Emerson Phillips |
Publsiher | : New York : Octagon Books, 1972 [c1940] |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : IND:32000007693494 |
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity
Author | : Paul Stapfer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Civilization, Classical, in literature |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B272592 |
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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage
Author | : Lisa Hopkins |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781501514623 |
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No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.