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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... sketch from Cleveland to the New York comic magazine Vanity Fair in late 1860. In the sketch Ward affects an uneducated village dialect to recount a trip to " Niblo's Garding " in New York to see " Ed Forrest " play " Otheller , More of ...
... sketch from Cleveland to the New York comic magazine Vanity Fair in late 1860. In the sketch Ward affects an uneducated village dialect to recount a trip to " Niblo's Garding " in New York to see " Ed Forrest " play " Otheller , More of ...
Pagina 91
... sketch or historical tale . In " Ready for Europe " ( May 1876 ) , Susan Coolidge expresses the general purpose of these travel sketches : " To travel anywhere , intelligently , has a great deal of education in it , and for an American ...
... sketch or historical tale . In " Ready for Europe " ( May 1876 ) , Susan Coolidge expresses the general purpose of these travel sketches : " To travel anywhere , intelligently , has a great deal of education in it , and for an American ...
Pagina 196
... Sketches , p . 11 Early Tales and Sketches , pp . 86-87 . 12 Shelley Fisher Fishkin , From Fact to Fiction : Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Press , 1985 ) , pp . 63 , 65-68 . 13 ...
... Sketches , p . 11 Early Tales and Sketches , pp . 86-87 . 12 Shelley Fisher Fishkin , From Fact to Fiction : Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Press , 1985 ) , pp . 63 , 65-68 . 13 ...
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