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...” (3);Acra- sia of The Faerie Queene’s book 2 stands for Tasso’s episodes of luxurious romance; and so on. Though Virgil’s Dido gives Watkins’s book its title, then, its focus is far more general: the alluring women who incarnate an intensity of desire that challenges the high seriousness...

... of Pietro Bembo” appeared in the September 1996 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2006 Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France . By Margaret W. Ferguson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters...

... follow Marlowe and Nashe’s model in Dido, Queen of Carthage by looking to Chaucer as the poetic authority for classical myth. Like Chaucer, both playwrights foreground the destruction left in empire’s wake. A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines a retelling of Dido’s story that privileges her authority over...

... Chaucer agrees with Boethius that earthly fame in the final analysis is a small affair, although the House is built upon a mountain of ice, so long as there is such a thing as worldly fame, the poet gives to the place what permanence there can be in a temporal wor1d.O The story of Dido...

... MLQ I December 1996 Blisse (in Watkins’s persuasive analogy [ 1371). But Aeneas cannot appropri- ate Dido’s pain. He is (and we are) unable to turn his rejection of her into an edifying lesson in empire building. On the contrary, in the underworld he desperately seeks a forgiveness from her...

... omission involves tlie analysis of certain poems such as di- zains 168 and 114. Each follows an impresa containing ii classical figui-e: Ac- taeon and Dido. Not unexpectedly, the discussion emphasizes Sckve’s use of the classical tradition. Of Petrarchan influence we hear nothing. Yet 168 cle...

... suffering is over- whelming. In the notes to his edition of the fourth Aeneid, R. G. Austin draws attention to the relationship between yet another slain deer and Mar- vell’s poem.11 Vergil describes the first onslaught of Dido’s fatal pas- sion for Aeneas by means of the following simile...

... for Aeneas; she fostered his love for Dido and got him embroiled with Turnus. If Dido and Turnus, like Patroclus, had not been sacrificed, Aeneas would have been caught in one or the other of these traps and failed of his destiny. Thus in the classical epics, the respective stories have been put...

... and resumes his epic task: killing suitors, founding Rome, reinforcing Charlemagne, or liberating Jerusalem. Examples of the layover include some of the most famous episodes in epic tradition: Dido’s Carthage (Virgil), Dragontina’s Garden (Boiardo), Alcina’s Island (Ariosto), Armida’s Palace (Tasso...

... to be in perfect accord with Caesar, respecting his judgment and respected by him. Virgil con- sents to read a passage from his Aeneid, and it is worth noting that the passage Jonson has chosen is that part of Book IV which describes how Dido and Aeneas met in a cave during the storm, and how...

... that there was any siesta for the laborers raising the walls of Dido’s Carthage (“Instant ardentes Tyrii and it is by assimilation to their industriousness at least as much as in illustration of it that the bees become a paradigm for the cooperative work of his- torical communities: qualis apes...

... fear!” Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false friend’s approach in Hades turn, Wave us away, and keep thy solitude! (206-10) At first the simile appears quite straightforward: Dido...

... 18 89 6 6 Progne y Filomena 95 81081 5 5 1 La verdad averiguada 98 12 11 79 4 5 La fuerza de la sangre 74 14 18 60 10 8 3 Las mocedades del Cid II 78 6 8 64 5 9 El perfecto caballero 76 6 10 111 7 7 1 El Narciso en su opinidn 94 9 13 52 25 4 1 Dido y Eneas 63 5 9 45 6...

... in the country, being in Norfolk and Suffolk during 1587 and at Leicester in 1591 (Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 11, 40). To this low period of their fortunes it is logical to ascribe their performances both of The Wars of Cyrus and of Marlowe’s Dido. Doubtless the plague of 1592-1593 ended...

..., The Elizabethan Stage, 11, 40). To this low period of their fortunes it is logical to ascribe their performances both of The Wars of Cyrus and of Marlowe’s Dido. Doubtless the plague of 1592-1593 ended their strolling, as it did that of other companies, and accounted for the printing in 1594 of both...

... of methods and issues, Watkins’s study builds on the strengths of his earlier books while moving in significantly different directions, a type of growth and change that has characterized the career of this impressive scholar. The immersion in Virgil that shapes his first book, The Specter of Dido (1995...

... of the major plays, excluding Dido Queen of Carthuge as juvenilia and The Massacre at Paris as incomplete. Tamburluine Part I reveals “Marlowe’s own .1 ti2 skeptical, sardonic attitude toward what the Scythian stands for-uncon- trolled ambition” (p. 16). Masinton...

... defense of the literal level in classical epic, for surely Dido, Nausicaa, and Beatrice are not simply like Nataslia and Grushenka by not being personifications (p. 32); but there is an undcrlying more sophisti- cated point about that intertextuality by which one author’s literal level be- conies...

... for word, Virgile, But it wolde lasten a1 to longe while (Dido) We1 can Oveyde hire letter in vers endyte, Which were as now to long for me to wryte. (Medea...

...-Beuve : Cahier de notes grecques. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature, No. 12, 1955. Pp. xiii + 71. $3.50. Pabst, Walter. Venus und die Missverstandene Dido : Literarische Urspriinge des Sibyllen- und des Venusberges. Hamburg : Hamburger...