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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... seemed to agree with Dumas . In his copy of Breen's book , he noted , " Shakespeare took other people's quartz and extracted gold from it . " 10 Twain certainly practiced this himself on lesser literary figures - journalists ...
... seemed to agree with Dumas . In his copy of Breen's book , he noted , " Shakespeare took other people's quartz and extracted gold from it . " 10 Twain certainly practiced this himself on lesser literary figures - journalists ...
Pagina 112
... seemed real , whereas that kind of talk had not seemed real to me before .... It had not seemed to me that the blushful passages in Shakespeare were of a sort which Shakespeare had actually heard people use [ , ] but were inventions of ...
... seemed real , whereas that kind of talk had not seemed real to me before .... It had not seemed to me that the blushful passages in Shakespeare were of a sort which Shakespeare had actually heard people use [ , ] but were inventions of ...
Pagina 186
... seemed to be doing in The Tempest , but also because he was suffering through a period of private and public tragedy . While he was working on the different versions of his story , he lost his favorite daughter , Susy , and his wife ...
... seemed to be doing in The Tempest , but also because he was suffering through a period of private and public tragedy . While he was working on the different versions of his story , he lost his favorite daughter , Susy , and his wife ...
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