The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean TragedyUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - 254 sider 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. |
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... Roman term honor with which she has just disparaged Octavia , and invoking a principle of compromise antithetical to the stoic resolve she has sworn to live ( or die ) by . Even Antony's choice of confidants for Cleopatra is suspect ...
... Roman term honor with which she has just disparaged Octavia , and invoking a principle of compromise antithetical to the stoic resolve she has sworn to live ( or die ) by . Even Antony's choice of confidants for Cleopatra is suspect ...
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James C. Bulman. Roman by a Roman / Valiantly vanquish'd , " Antony fictionalizes his death as a complete heroic ... Romans who , like Antony himself at Brutus's death , can afford the mag- nanimity of praising a dead competitor . As ...
James C. Bulman. Roman by a Roman / Valiantly vanquish'd , " Antony fictionalizes his death as a complete heroic ... Romans who , like Antony himself at Brutus's death , can afford the mag- nanimity of praising a dead competitor . As ...
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... Roman fashion " may be her ideal ; but in fact , her death holds too much of promise , too much of worldly pleasure , to make it convincingly Roman . Her last thoughts have nothing to do with the nobleness of life as Romans understood ...
... Roman fashion " may be her ideal ; but in fact , her death holds too much of promise , too much of worldly pleasure , to make it convincingly Roman . Her last thoughts have nothing to do with the nobleness of life as Romans understood ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Heroism in the Early Plays | 26 |
A Repudiation of the Past | 51 |
Copyright | |
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