I. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564~ April 23, 1616)
1. Shakespeare’s Works
: Comedy, History, Tragedy, Poetry
2. Shakespeare’s Plays
: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth
3. Shakespeare’s Reputation
(1) Robert Greene, 1592 : ”...supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you.”
(2) John Dryden, 1668 : ”
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-Barbauld believed that the primary goal of literature was to educate the young in rational thought and correct moral principles. . . . She further insisted that contemporary literature must teach a new concept of gender-equality.
-To attain these goals, literature must above all probable, showing in detail how characters develop over time, gradua
“A simple traditional song or poem for children” (Oxford Dictionaries)
The Difficulty of Defining Nursery Rhymes
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Nursery Rhymes and (cynical) jokes
– rebellion against authority
- releasing taboos in polite society
Moore to Pound, Jan 9, 1919
…I was born in 1887 and brought up in the home of my grandfather, a clergyman of the Presbyterian church. I am Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909 and taught shorthand, typewriting and commercial law at the government Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1911 to 1915. In 1916, my mother and I left
of
children’s tales that included
“The Happy Prince” and
“The Selfish Giant”
(1888)
Lady Windermere’s Fan
(1892)
Lady Windermere’ mistakenly
believes her husband to be having
an affair and considers leaving him
for her “fan,” Lord Darlington.
The comedic confusion is set
within the strict codes of
Victorian high society, and the comic mistrust between