"A lean and hungry look": sight; ekphrasis; irony; in Julius Caesar and Henry V
"A lean and hungry look": sight; ekphrasis; irony; in Julius Caesar and Henry V
Shakespeare’s version of the description of Cassius’s ‘look’ in North’s Plutarch exploits classical and Early Modern uncertainty concerning the physiology of sight. In both Julius Caesar and Henry V, Shakespeare creates ambiguity and irony through his uses of North, and through techniques of ekphrasis (‘vivid description’) and enargeia (‘laying before the eyes’). The results valuably involve readers and spectators in imaginative debate.
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King, Ros
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2016
King, Ros
7b27456c-0da8-432b-a82f-ee19af23d4fb
King, Ros
(2016)
"A lean and hungry look": sight; ekphrasis; irony; in Julius Caesar and Henry V.
[in special issue: Shakespeare and Rome]
Shakespeare Survey, 69, .
(doi:10.1017/SSO9781316670408.013).
Abstract
Shakespeare’s version of the description of Cassius’s ‘look’ in North’s Plutarch exploits classical and Early Modern uncertainty concerning the physiology of sight. In both Julius Caesar and Henry V, Shakespeare creates ambiguity and irony through his uses of North, and through techniques of ekphrasis (‘vivid description’) and enargeia (‘laying before the eyes’). The results valuably involve readers and spectators in imaginative debate.
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Accepted/In Press date: November 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: October 2016
Published date: 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385091
ISSN: 0080-9152
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