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Et in Arcadia ego - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Faithful Shepherdess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Faithful Shepherdess is a Jacobean era stage play, the work that inaugurated the playwriting career of John Fletcher. Though the initial production was a failure with its audience, the printed ...
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the use of the "eclogue" genre (like most of Virgil's eclogues, "October" is a dialogue between two shepherds, Piers and Cuddie); ... Neither the "shepherd" who seeks a lady's favor nor the "shepherdess" he loves is truly rustic, however; they are "stand-ins" for the poet and his (real or imagined) beloved.
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Duckworth Academic. Duckworth Publishers. Publisher based in London, UK. ... Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the Eclogues as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences.
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About the Life of Virgil. A commentary on Virgil's poetry follows the Life proper, but breaks off after the Eclogues. Most of the biographical material is generally thought to derive from a lost vita by Suetonius.
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Virgil. Eclogues, Georgics, ... Revised versions of these two volumes are available new from Amazon.com (click on image right for details). In addition to the translation of Virgil's three poems, the book contains recent text revisions by G. P. Goold, source Latin texts, Fairclough's footnotes and an index of proper names.
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Renaissance literature focused more on the distinction between court and country life, and Shakespeare had many contemporaries who worked in this literary vein, including Edmund Spenser who based his Shepherdess Calendar in 1579 on Virgil's Eclogues, and Sir Philip Sidney who wrote a romance in 1590 titled The Countess...
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