Study of Love''s Labour''s Lost

Klappentext Originally published in 1936, this is a study of Love's Labour's Lost by the English historian Frances Yates (1899-1981). Zusammenfassung Frances Yates (1899–1981) was an English historian renowned for her extensive writings on Western Hermeticism. This early 1936 text by Yates takes as its starting point the question of whether the character of Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost was intended by Shakespeare to be a satirical portrait of his contemporary John Florio. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Florio; 2. Eliot; 3. Harvey and Nashe; 4. Chapman; 5. Bruno and the 'school of night'; 6. Bruno and 'Stella'; 7. The Earl of Northumberland and 'Stella's' sister; 8. The Gray's Inn revels; 9. The date of Love's Labour's Lost; 10. The characters of Love's Labour's Lost and Italian comedy; 11. Shakespeare - some deductions; Appendix 1. Extract from Gabriel Harvey's Pierces Supererogation; Appendix 2. The dedication from George Chapman's The Shadow of Night; Appendix 3. Essay by Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Frances Yates, Frances A. Yates, Yates Frances
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2013
• EAN: 9781107695986
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69598-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean