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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... quotes , and in its pretensions to spontaneity , this exercise exposes the bombast and sham of a political speech . The lines from Shakespeare , scattered among banal repetitions , show the extent of the speaker's presumptuousness ...
... quotes , and in its pretensions to spontaneity , this exercise exposes the bombast and sham of a political speech . The lines from Shakespeare , scattered among banal repetitions , show the extent of the speaker's presumptuousness ...
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... quote taken out of context , misquoted or misspelled , and attributed to Shakespeare or one of his characters as if ... quotes that Shakespeare knew Ward three hundred years before and acted as his advance agent . Among Shakespeare's ...
... quote taken out of context , misquoted or misspelled , and attributed to Shakespeare or one of his characters as if ... quotes that Shakespeare knew Ward three hundred years before and acted as his advance agent . Among Shakespeare's ...
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... quote exclu- sively from Henry the Fourth , subsequent pages contain items from other plays . For instance , whey - faced ... quotes from the Henry plays , these too hint at more than stylistic influences . The novel's epigraph from The ...
... quote exclu- sively from Henry the Fourth , subsequent pages contain items from other plays . For instance , whey - faced ... quotes from the Henry plays , these too hint at more than stylistic influences . The novel's epigraph from The ...
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