Lucretius and Shakespeare on the nature of things / by R. Allen Shoaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoaf, R. Allen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investment analysis.

Investments--Decision making.

Investments.

Portfolio management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare's works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his ""great creating nature"" (The Winter's Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORDFORMAT, EDITIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS; LIST OF ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN WORKSCONSULTED AND CITED; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A NOTE TO THE READER; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; EPILOGUE; NOTES; EPIGRAPH CITATIONS; LIST OF MODERN WORKS CONSULTEDAND CITED; DE RERUM NATURAINDEX LOCORUM; GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebary, viewed October 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6953-8

OCLC:

893739667