Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things.
Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare's works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Nigh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare's works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his ""great creating nature"" (The Winter's Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781443869539 1443869538 1443865311 9781443865319 1322216312 9781322216317 |