John Kerrigan (1) (1956–)
Auteur de Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent John Kerrigan, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
John Kerrigan is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in English
Œuvres de John Kerrigan
The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Studies (Liverpool English Texts and Studies) (2000) 6 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of King Lear (Oxford Shakespeare Studies) (1983) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson (2004) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1956-06-16
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England, UK
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 77
- Popularité
- #231,246
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 36
In lines 133/134 of his pastoral poem "L'Allegro", also included in the 1645 Poems, Milton again celebrates Shakespeare in rhyming couplet:
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Here, Milton celebrates the originality or inventiveness of Shakespeare's creative or literary imagination, its force and transformative power. The Shakespeare whom Milton apostrophizes in "On Shakespeare" - "Dear son of Memory" - is here described as "Fancy's child". Milton seems to have identified the two resources every writer (worth the name) requires: inspiration and imagination; and it takes real talent to alchemize both into literature of lasting quality.
If Milton wrote this who am I to doubt Shakespeare’s imagination, inspiration, literary prowess and originality?
And what are we to make of the mysterious entry in “Romeo and Juliet”: "Would be better play if Romeo didn't prance about like such a nonce."?
Still gutted that Cardenio is lost.… (plus d'informations)