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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... live in hell . ( 1.3.25-33 ) His morbid allusions to graves and coffins , to the personified fury who torments his soul , are all part and parcel of the diction of those Senecan heroes whose lives were nothing but living hells . Seneca ...
... live in hell . ( 1.3.25-33 ) His morbid allusions to graves and coffins , to the personified fury who torments his soul , are all part and parcel of the diction of those Senecan heroes whose lives were nothing but living hells . Seneca ...
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... live up to conventional expectations , Othello is real because he does live up to them . His credibility as a character does not depend , as Troilus's does , on his coming to terms with a latent skepticism . It depends instead on Shake ...
... live up to conventional expectations , Othello is real because he does live up to them . His credibility as a character does not depend , as Troilus's does , on his coming to terms with a latent skepticism . It depends instead on Shake ...
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... live , to fill the world with words ? " ( l . 44 ) —but is overborne by his brother King Edward , who speaks in conscience , “ we have done too much " ( 1. 43 ) . This opposition of attitudes anticipates that part of the scene in Caesar ...
... live , to fill the world with words ? " ( l . 44 ) —but is overborne by his brother King Edward , who speaks in conscience , “ we have done too much " ( 1. 43 ) . This opposition of attitudes anticipates that part of the scene in Caesar ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Heroism in the Early Plays | 26 |
A Repudiation of the Past | 51 |
Copyright | |
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