Bottom, Thou Art Translated: Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Related Literature

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Rodopi, 1973 - 255 páginas
 

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Political Allegory in the Age of Elizabeth
3
The Importance of Succession to the
31
The Duke of Alençon and Edmund
51
Devices Similar to Those in A Midsummer
75
The Allegorical Roles of Alençon and
131
The Succession to the Throne 15941595
167
The Prototypes of Bottom and His Crew
189
The Actors in the Original Roles of A
209
Bibliography
225
Index
233

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Página 7 - ... laden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality, better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how this world goeth than how his own wit runneth...
Página 6 - The historian scarcely giveth leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he, loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality...
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