The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean TragedyUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - Počet stran: 254 Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. |
Vyhledávání v knize
Výsledky 1-5 z 52
Strana
... reality . " Yet much of our misunderstanding of Shake- speare's representation of heroism springs from his reliance on these tradi- tions and conventions . Shakespeare used an idiom we view through a glass darkly - an aggregate of ...
... reality . " Yet much of our misunderstanding of Shake- speare's representation of heroism springs from his reliance on these tradi- tions and conventions . Shakespeare used an idiom we view through a glass darkly - an aggregate of ...
Strana 16
... reality firmly predicated upon fiction . Myth and history merged to make legend , and great men acquired the patina of their bronze - age prototypes . In the Elizabethan imagination , Henry V was an Alexander ; Talbot was a Hector ...
... reality firmly predicated upon fiction . Myth and history merged to make legend , and great men acquired the patina of their bronze - age prototypes . In the Elizabethan imagination , Henry V was an Alexander ; Talbot was a Hector ...
Strana 17
... reality , but are agreements about how to perceive reality . For an audi- ence , they have the power to suggest ideas and establish values in an easily comprehensible manner . Too slavish an adherence to them will , of course , make it ...
... reality , but are agreements about how to perceive reality . For an audi- ence , they have the power to suggest ideas and establish values in an easily comprehensible manner . Too slavish an adherence to them will , of course , make it ...
Strana 20
... reality . The problem is that such a mediation traps the citizens into making a judgment that , in this case , they would rather not make : that Coriolanus is fit to be consu1 . Custom binds them to it . They must be a loyal audience to ...
... reality . The problem is that such a mediation traps the citizens into making a judgment that , in this case , they would rather not make : that Coriolanus is fit to be consu1 . Custom binds them to it . They must be a loyal audience to ...
Strana 21
... reality . To discredit them , as Coriolanus wishes to do , would be to deny a potent source of theatrical definition . On the other hand , the danger Coriolanus spies in them is real : they depersonalize the hero by forcing him to ...
... reality . To discredit them , as Coriolanus wishes to do , would be to deny a potent source of theatrical definition . On the other hand , the danger Coriolanus spies in them is real : they depersonalize the hero by forcing him to ...
Obsah
9 | |
15 | |
Emulation Hath a Thousand Sons Heroism in the Early Plays | 26 |
Ironic Heroism A Repudiation of the Past | 48 |
The Matter of Troy | 77 |
The Integrity of the Noble Moor | 101 |
Timon and the Ethics of Heroism | 120 |
Persistence of the Old Lear | 141 |
Bellonas Bridegroom or Dwarfish Thief? | 163 |
Antony Cleopatra and Heroic Retrospection | 185 |
Notes | 208 |
Bibliography | 228 |
Index | 238 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
absolute Achilles admiration allusion Antony and Cleopatra Antony's Apemantus assertion audience Aufidius blood Brower Brutus Caesar character chivalric comedy comic conqueror context Coriolanus Coriolanus's Cressida critics curses dare death deeds define Desdemona diction doth dramatic echoes eiron Elizabethan English epic faith Fool Hamlet hath heart Hector Henry Henry VI Hercules heroic conventions heroic idiom heroic traditions heroism Hieronimo honor Hotspur hyperbole Iago Iago's ideal imagery irony King Lear kingship Laertes lament language Lear's legend London Macbeth madness medieval mimesis mimetic misanthropy moral nature noble Othello parody passion play play's Princeton rage rant Renaissance reprint Reuben Brower revenge rhetorical Richard role Roman satire scene Senecan Shake Shakespeare Survey Shakespearean Tragedy speaks speare speech stoic suggests sword Talbot Tamburlaine thee thou Timon of Athens tion Titus Titus Andronicus Titus's tragic hero Troilus Troilus and Cressida Troilus's Troy Ulysses University Press vaunt vows words York
Oblíbené pasáže
Strana 181 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Strana 64 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife " Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Strana 116 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Strana 51 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Strana 153 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Strana 118 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Strana 74 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Strana 172 - 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.