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READING SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICS. A POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR. EDIZ. CRITICA
di LOMBARDI C. (CUR.); MARFE' L. (CUR.); RAGNI C. (CUR.)
Editore: EDIZIONI DELL'ORSO
Collana: MEDUSA
Anno edizione: 2021
Pagine: 176 p.
ISBN: 9788836131921
<DescrizioneEstesa>'Today a thriving area of research interest, the relationship between Shakespeare and the classics has aroused mixed feelings in the past. While never denying the indebtedness to the cultural and literary heritage of classical Rome and Greece, scholarship has long tended to present English drama as substantially free from the auctoritas of classical antiquity, and stress Shakespeare's individual and original voice. This book grew from a Comparative Literature postgraduate seminar held at the Department of Studi Umanistici of the University of Torino, and devoted to recent studies in classical reception. The focus was Shakespeare's reception of the Greek and Latin culture. Basing the work on the essays by Charles Martindale, A. B. Taylor, and Jonathan Bate, a group of young scholars explored how the various patterns of the classical world influenced Shakespeare's thought, imagery and style, and his sense of performance. (...)'.
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READING SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICS. A POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR. EDIZ. CRITICA
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2021
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9788836131921
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176 p.