By Brian Vickers
ISBN-10: 0415134080
ISBN-13: 9780415134088
The severe Heritage gathers jointly a wide physique of severe resources on significant figures in literature. every one quantity offers modern responses to a writer's paintings, permitting scholar and researcher to learn the fabric themselves.
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But it was Capell’s fate to be dismissed by influential critics, who had either not read him or were too indebted to him to be able to acknowledge the fact, lampooning or insulting him instead. May the presentation of his work in this volume bring him a more deserved recognition. VII It is difficult to sum up this, or any other period in the history of Shakespeare’s reception. Older ideas and methods carry on side by side with those designed to replace them; new ideas are developed using older methods, and so on.
217) accepts much of Farmer’s argument, accepts the evidence concerning Shakespeare’s knowledge of school-texts, but then neatly turns the tables: Still, however, Shakespeare’s total ignorance of the learned languages remains to be proved; for it must be granted that such books are put into the hands of those who are learning those languages, in which class we must necessarily rank Shakespeare, or he could not even have quoted Terence from Udall or Lilly…. In the same year Richard Warner (No. 219) argued that a writer might know a foreign language yet still use translations, for various reasons.
192–3 and notes; this edition will be subsequently referred to as ‘Life’.