Mark Twain and Shakespeare: A Cultural LegacyUniversity Press of America, 1993 - 216 pagina's In this book, the author discusses Mark Twain's treatment of Shakespeare as a key factor in Twain's self-understanding and artistic development. The extensive and diverse treatment is broken down into four categories: biography, comedy, history, and tragedy. Berret demonstrates the influence of Hamlet on the classic Huckleberry Finn as well as the broader influences of Shakespeare's authorship in Twain's unique literary humor and personae. |
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... later analyze these and other references to Shakespeare in Twain's works , but here I will just imagine that Delia Bacon could have contributed to them from afar by her concepts of Shakespeare as a social reformer and the style of ...
... later analyze these and other references to Shakespeare in Twain's works , but here I will just imagine that Delia Bacon could have contributed to them from afar by her concepts of Shakespeare as a social reformer and the style of ...
Pagina 123
... later became chapters IV to XVII in Life on the Mississippi . " Old Times " contains very little Shakespeare , but there are elements in it which Twain would later find and appreciate in Shakespeare . " When I find a well - drawn charac ...
... later became chapters IV to XVII in Life on the Mississippi . " Old Times " contains very little Shakespeare , but there are elements in it which Twain would later find and appreciate in Shakespeare . " When I find a well - drawn charac ...
Pagina 141
... later leaves him , causing him to feel like a " blighted being . " In the midst of his gloom he compares him- self to Hamlet , entering graveyards and contemplating suicide , although , as Tom Sawyer would later do , he wishes that he ...
... later leaves him , causing him to feel like a " blighted being . " In the midst of his gloom he compares him- self to Hamlet , entering graveyards and contemplating suicide , although , as Tom Sawyer would later do , he wishes that he ...
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