Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lim, Vanessa
• Paul, Joanne

Titel

Commonplaces, Aristophanes, and Clouds in Hamlet

Ist Teil von

• Notes and queries, 2018-12, Vol.65 (4), p.535-536

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Limited(England)

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Though the humanist foundations of Shakespeare's Hamlet have long been recognized, its debt to Plutarch and Erasmus has overshadowed a further debt, to Aristophanes, in the library of commonplaces and allusions from which it draws. Shakespeare's character of Hamlet is presented as a university student with a particular fondness for the collection and use of commonplaces. One hundred and forty proverbs have been identified in the play, and no less than seventy-one of these are spoken by Hamlet. The play also features an explicit instance of commonplace-gathering.