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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... give no foot of ground ! " ( 1.4.6-15 ) York speaks the kind of epic narration that had so distinguished the pa- triotism of England's defenders in Part One ; and if he was not one of them in that play , his new style of verse in Part ...
... give no foot of ground ! " ( 1.4.6-15 ) York speaks the kind of epic narration that had so distinguished the pa- triotism of England's defenders in Part One ; and if he was not one of them in that play , his new style of verse in Part ...
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... gives thee better counsel , give me mine again . I would have none but knaves follow it , since a fool gives it . ( 2.4.70–75 ) The Fool is playing with an ironic inversion of values that baffled Dr. Johnson . " His advice would be ...
... gives thee better counsel , give me mine again . I would have none but knaves follow it , since a fool gives it . ( 2.4.70–75 ) The Fool is playing with an ironic inversion of values that baffled Dr. Johnson . " His advice would be ...
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... give us the feeling of assent in spite of all logic " ( 159 ) . In other words , engagement with Cleopatra anesthetizes our critical faculties , and a “ new ease " releases us from the " restless tension ... which action and language ...
... give us the feeling of assent in spite of all logic " ( 159 ) . In other words , engagement with Cleopatra anesthetizes our critical faculties , and a “ new ease " releases us from the " restless tension ... which action and language ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Heroism in the Early Plays | 26 |
A Repudiation of the Past | 51 |
Copyright | |
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