The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1622 Monday, 26 September 2005
[1] From: Joseph Tate <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 09:58:39 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1598 Greek Drama
[2] From: Tom Krause <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 16:56:14 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1598 Greek Drama
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From: Joseph Tate <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 09:58:39 -0700
Subject: 16.1598 Greek Drama
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1598 Greek Drama
This is perhaps a bit off topic, but may be of interest: Peter
Stallybrass's essay "The Mystery of Walking" in the _Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies_ (32:571-580) looks at resemblances between
King Lear and _Oedipus Rex_. There's no suggestion made that Shakespeare
read Sophocles; Stallybrass just does a remarkable job close reading the
plays side-by-side.
Joseph Tate
Oregon State University
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From: Tom Krause <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 16:56:14 -0400
Subject: 16.1598 Greek Drama
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1598 Greek Drama
Matthew Steggle writes:
>"Certainly, Jonson has read Aristophanes, and models bits of, for
instance,
>_The Staple of News_ on episodes from
> those plays, as well as borrowing Aristophanes's "old comic freedom" of
>representing living individuals on stage."
And of course, Shakespeare modeled his debasement metaphors on
Aristophanes's pioneering allusion in The Frogs, and borrowed the "old
comic freedom" in Measure for Measure to boot, as I've explained elsewhere.
Tom Krause
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