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Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret - Myron Stagman

Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret

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Buch | Hardcover
430 Seiten
2010 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-2407-1 (ISBN)
CHF 87,25 inkl. MwSt
To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading!! This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background. Not only should this prove the Shakespeare-Greek Drama connection, but that William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama.3. “Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums”Many of us associate Lady Macbeth’s special temper with some of the most blood-curdling lines in literature:I have given suck, and knowHow 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 swornAs you have done to this.Shakespeare’s precise action image appears in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, from verses spoken by Clytemnestra. She says to Agamemnon:It was not of my own free will but by force thatThou didst take and wed me, after slaying Tantalus,My former husband, and dashing my babe on the groundalive, When thou hadst torn him from my breast with brutalviolence. The derivation of Lady Macbeth’s dashing image cannot be in doubt.

Dr. Myron Stagman is a Shakespearean and Classical Greek research scholar who is keen on solving literary and historical mysteries.

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