The History of English Soliloquy: Aeschylus to ShakespeareUniversity Press of America, 1985 - 139 páginas Provides a thorough survey of the history of the soliloquy, from the earliest forms found on pre-Biblical Canaanite tablets through the heights of Shakespeare. Shows how Elizabethan soliloquy evolved out of its ancient forerunners, and that Shakespeare dominates soliloquy. Of particular interest to students and scholars of language, drama and Shakespeare. |
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... Seneca ( c . 4 B. C. - 65 A.D. ) — or the unknown author whose plays are at- tributed to him is generally credited with having written the only Latin tragedies safely come down to the present . The Senecan plays have many a soliloquy ...
... Seneca ( c . 4 B. C. - 65 A.D. ) — or the unknown author whose plays are at- tributed to him is generally credited with having written the only Latin tragedies safely come down to the present . The Senecan plays have many a soliloquy ...
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... Seneca in style and diction is too strongly marked to permit us to reject it [ a considerable amount of the play ] en bloc . ” An interesting incident from the life of Seneca dispels belief that he was capable of writing only sober ...
... Seneca in style and diction is too strongly marked to permit us to reject it [ a considerable amount of the play ] en bloc . ” An interesting incident from the life of Seneca dispels belief that he was capable of writing only sober ...
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... Seneca's rhetoric . Sufficient for the mo- ment are two opinions from the late - sixteenth - century edition out of ... Seneca's ten plays , praised in his introduction to Troas " the flowre of all writers , Seneca " ( p . 3 ) . Beare ...
... Seneca's rhetoric . Sufficient for the mo- ment are two opinions from the late - sixteenth - century edition out of ... Seneca's ten plays , praised in his introduction to Troas " the flowre of all writers , Seneca " ( p . 3 ) . Beare ...
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The Mysteries | 25 |
Morality Drama | 45 |
Shakespearean Structures and Language | 51 |
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The History of English Soliloquy: Aeschylus to Shakespeare Lloyd A. Skiffington Visualização de excertos - 1985 |
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Aaron action Aeschylus allegorical alliteration apostrophe audience Belial Caliban's Castle of Perseverance century chapter character choragos chorus cited classical Clemen comedy comic conscience Counterfeit Countenance crown death declamation devils diction doth earlier early morality Elizabethan English soliloquy Envy Euripides evil example exemplifies fiend figurative Gobbo Grand Homily Greek Hamlet hath Heaven Henry Henry VI homiletic honor Iago iloquy imagery intermediate and late Jasper Heywood Juliet Juventus King lament language late moralities later Launcelot lines live Lord Macbeth Magnificence medieval soliloquy metaphor Mini-homily Morality Plays morality soliloquy mystery soliloquy opening personae Plautus plot exposition plot-action primitive prologue psychomachia rhetorical Richard Richard III role-action Roman Romeo Satan says scene Second Shepherds Seneca sermon Shakespeare Shakespearean soliloquy sophistication Sophocles speaker speaks stage structural theatre thee Thespis thou Thyestes tion tone Tragedy types utterance vaunt verse Vice villain word-play words York yower