Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
60 (September 1785): 230
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anne Francis | AF
published, again through Dodsley
, The Obsequies of Demetrius Poliorcetes
: A Poem, based on a story in Plutarch
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 60 (September 1785): 230 |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | Janice Thaddeus
discusses the prerogative MD
assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch
's Lives, who was forgiven... |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 380 |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen |
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