A Short History of How the „Sweet Swan of Avon” Became
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Krótka historia o tym jak „słodki łabędź z Avonu” stał się ikoną literatury europejskiej
A Short History of How the „Sweet Swan of Avon” Became the Icon of European Literature

Author(s): Agnieszka Szwach
Subject(s): British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: William Shakespeare;Shakespeare;European literature;icon of literature
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to show and analyse how initial, tentative idolatory attitudes towards Shakespeare, expressed by Ben Jonson in the First Folio ode ‘To the memory of my beloved, The AUTHOR Master William Shakespeare’, saw their full realization in the eighteenth century Europe

  • Page Range: 27-49
  • Page Count: 23
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Language: English, Polish