...things that is truely great about Shakespeare and what sets him apart from the other...
In lesson 8 of his Shakespeare "MOOC course" on "Antony and Cleopatra" Prof.Jonathan Bates stated , that
....„one of the things that is truely great about Shakespeare and what sets him apart from the other dramatist of his time is the sustained way in which he uses clusters of poetic imagery to create ideas,...achieved through linguistic patterns“
Within this context Prof. Bate searched for imagery of the Nile in Antony and Cleopatra to interpret Shakespeare’s presentation of Egypt. He chose the river "Nile" as an example for such clusters with "incredible evocative images of the Nile" and he recommended to find (by "word searching online")... others clusters or hits by yourself: I did this for Marlowe
Tamburlaine : ….as looks the sun through Nilus flowing stream
…Lie slumbering on the flowery banks of Nile
...As vast and deep as euphrates and Nile
. ..And I have marched along the the river Nile
...To drink the river Nile of Euphrates
. ..And I have marched along the the river Nile
...To drink the river Nile of Euphrates
Jew of Malta
…to are gotten up by Nilus winding banks
...where Nilus pays his tribute to the man
…to are gotten up by Nilus winding banks
...where Nilus pays his tribute to the man
Amazing ! ..... for Prof.Bate, I suppose, that's easy to explain: Shakespeare was the best "pupil" (the "successor") of his "teacher" Marlowe (the "predecessor"), even though they were of the same age and did dot overlap in their literary works for a single day.
Does "this thing " really set Shakespeare apart from Marlowe as a sustained way he uses clusters of poetic imagery to create ideas,...achieved through linguistic patterns“?
