title: Shakespeare’s Clumsiest Phrase or a Disregarded Case of His Quoting Plato Verbatim
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metadata.value: Burova, Irina I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-05T15:55:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-05T15:55:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Burova I. I. Shakespeare’s Clumsiest Phrase or a Disregarded Case of His Quoting Plato Verbatim. Philologia Classica 2016, 11(2), 301–307.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2016.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6741
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: A number of researchers have shown that Shakespeare’s works bear the marks of the dramatist’s
  knowledge of Plato. Elizabethans could have an access to Plato’s heritage due to various editions of his dialogues,
  both in the original and also in Latin, Italian and French translations, but there is no way to establish
  whether the Bard borrowed directly from Plato or whether he learned about Plato’s teachings from some
  other sources. J. Vivian, H. R. Rickman, D. Quincy demonstrated convincingly Shakespeare’s indebtedness
  to Plato. They found that debt in such dramatic works as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Henry V”.
  Meanwhile Shakespearean scholars have ignored a possibility of interpreting Shakespeare’s last will and
  testament as a text that could be properly understood due to allusions to Plato’s works incorporated in it.
  The embarrassingly unpolished style of the document and its having nothing in common with Shakespeare’s
  poetic diction, have both been explained by the testator’s poor physical condition. The purpose of this paper
  is to suggest a new reading of the most notorious phrase in the will, the one about the second best bed
  bequeathed to Shakespeare’s prospective widow. The phrase can be regarded as an allusion to two dialogues
  by Plato, the “Republic” and the “Laws”, and this reading might change some of the existing beliefs in Shakespearean
  studies.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Plato in Renaissance England
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: William Shakespeare
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Shakespeare’s Greek
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: William Shakespeare’s last will
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the second best bed
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the “Republic”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the “Laws”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Shakespeare’s Clumsiest Phrase or a Disregarded Case of His Quoting Plato Verbatim
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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