How Gabriel Harvey read tragedy*
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چکیده
In 1579, Gabriel Harvey bound together in a composite collection surprising group of texts: an Italian grammar, translation Terence’s comedies, Lodovico Dolce’s rifacimenti Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Thyestes, Hecuba Iphigenia Erasmus’ Latin. The volume is now dispersed, but all its parts survive. This essay explores the story this hitherto unknown artefact what it reveals about Harvey’s reading practices his engagement with drama, especially Greek tragedy. Parsing elaborate system signs which multifariously annotated these works, argues that he read tragedies emphasis on situation utterance rather than extractable sententiae, as has been suggested. probed local detail attentiveness, eye to recurring observations revealed ‘thought’ works. He was drawn political dimension ‘thought’. Reading juxtaposition, became interested their different exploration rulers’ obligation rule by people’s consent. And found plays particularly endowed wisdom, no doubt partly because believed they had co-authored mentor own icon pragmatic Socrates.
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عنوان ژورنال: Renaissance Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1477-4658', '0269-1213']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12720