Virgil and The Tempest
Author: Donna B. Hamilton
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Virgil and the Tempest
Author: Donna B. Hamilton
Publisher:
Published: 2015-12-18
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780814253229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Virgil and The Tempest" offers a new assessment of the art and politics of Shakespeare's comic masterpiece by examining its relationship to both the contemporary political context and to Virgil's "Aeneid." Challenging the view that "The Tempest" supports the absolutist theories and policies of King James I, Donna Hamilton instead shows how the play represents an argument for a limited monarchy. Virgil and James I each represent a set of symbols and idioms that Shakespeare appropriates for his own use in "The Tempest." In the process, he pays homage to their respective eminence and brings them into dialogical relation with each other, changing the language to suit his purposes. This means rewriting the "Aeneid" to suit a new time and situation, and it means subtly altering the king's language to present a strong argument for constitutionalism. Scholars who have emphasized the "transcendent" Shakespeare have sometimes failed to recognize the playwright's passion for resistance, a passion nowhere more cunningly present than in "The Tempest." Hamilton analyzes Shakespeare's practice of rhetorical imitation in "The Tempest" by comparing him to other Renaissance imitators of Virgil. She also considers three contemporary political issues-the situation of the royal children, the 1610 parliamentary debates on royal prerogative, and the colonization projects in Virginia and Ireland-and their bearing on the play. The result is a fresh contribution to the current interest in Shakespeare's relationship to the courts of Elizabeth I and James I. Donna Hamilton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The Tempest and Its Travels
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781861890665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tempest and its Travels offers a new map of the play by means of an innovative collection of historical, critical, and creative texts and images.
Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
Author: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-23
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521032742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 052129374X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretation. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. David Lindley's Introduction and commentary focus upon contemporary texts, attending to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his 'colonialist' control of Caliban. The Tempest was also Shakespeare's response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theatre, and careful attention is given to the play's dramatic form, stage-craft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.
The Tempest: A Critical Reader
Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1472518411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.
Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition
Author: John Lewis Walker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780824066970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics
Author: Patrick Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 113999347X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a distinguished international team of contributors, this volume explores Shakespeare's vivid depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics. Examining the intellectual context of Shakespeare's plays, the essays illuminate Shakespeare's engagement with the most pressing moral questions of his time, considering the competing claims of politics, Christian ethics and classical moral philosophy, as well as new perspectives on controversial topics such as conscience, prayer, revenge and suicide. Looking at Shakespeare's responses to emerging schools of thought such as Calvinism and Epicureanism, and assessing comparisons between Shakespeare and his French contemporary Montaigne, the collection addresses questions such as: when does laughter become cruel? How does style reflect moral perspective? Does shame lead to self-awareness? This book is of great interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare studies, Renaissance studies and the history of ethics.
Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0486113973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Arden and Arcadia. Presence of Pastoral Tradition in Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
Author: Anne Sander
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 3668665680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for English and American Studies), course: Pastoral Conventions, language: English, abstract: Shepherds sitting in nature, singing and making music together and overall enjoying the Golden Age. Those are typical attributes for the pastoral genre. When thinking of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) a betrayed sorcerer or maybe the enslaved native Caliban comes to mind, not relaxed shepherds. However, it is a pastoral play which this term paper will prove. Theocritus and Virgil are considered the founding fathers of this literary genre. Therefore, it is no surprise that The Tempest shows many similarities to the works of these poets. I will compare The Tempest with Theocritus' first and seventh Idyll and Virgil's first, ninth and fifth Eclogue; other pastoral poems of that period will not be discussed. This term paper will present those similarities between the poems and the play and show that Shakespeare's The Tempest was strongly influenced by the pastoral Eclogues and Idylls and is itself a pastoral play. To achieve this, I will closely look at some of the themes of The Tempest and show their relation to the pastoral genre. The first time the play was performed was in 1611 (Vaughan 1). The date of publications of the Eclogues and the Idylls cannot be determined with certainty, however, Virgil lived between 70 BC (Ziolkowski 356) and 19 BC (Ziolkowski 1), while Theocritus lived around the 3rd century BC (Beloch 582), even though that is only an assumption. Therefore, the poems must have been written around the respective periods. Since there is a gap of over 1500 years between the first performance of The Tempest and the publication of the works of Virgil and Theocritus, it is astounding that there still are many connections between these works and that Shakespeare stayed true to the genre of pastoral. Firstly, I will closely look at the first and seventh Idyll of Theocritus. There, I will discuss the pastoral items in the poems, like Daphnis, his death and the gifts the shepherds give each other. Second, I will do the same with Virgil's Eclogues. Lastly, I will focus on the play’s themes. The Tempest is filled with pastoral themes
