The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean TragedyUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - 254 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
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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 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
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עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.