Shakespeare, the Ekphrastic Translator
In The Rape of Lucrece, the Shakespearean heroine admires a wall-painting illustrating a scene from the Trojan War. The two hundred lines of the poem in which Lucrece describes the ancient characters involved in the war represent a remarkable piece of ekphrastic transposition. It produces a vivid ef...
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2015-06-01
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| Series: | Linguaculture |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lincu.2015.2015.issue-1/lincu-2015-0038/lincu-2015-0038.xml?format=INT |