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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shoaf, R. Allen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages)
ISBN:9781443869539
1443869538
1443865311
9781443865319
1322216312
9781322216317