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Asimov’s Guide To Shakespear. Volume 1And Ulysses says indignantly: That's done, as near as the extremest ends Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife, —Act I, scene iii, lines 167-68 Since parallels never meet, they can be extended infinitely in either direction. The imitation is as far from reality, Ulysses' words are saying, as is an infinite distance in one direction from an infinite distance in the other. The other comparison of opposites is Vulcan (Hephaestus) and his wife, Venus (see page I-11). He hath a lady. .. Ulysses does not go on to say that Patroclus imitates Ulysses as well, but one can easily imagine he does and that that is what really annoys the Ithacan. But further discussion is interrupted by a messenger who arrives from Troy. It is Aeneas, debonair and gay, bringing a challenge from Hector, offering single combat with any Greek. As a cause for combat, he sends a message which Aeneas delivers as: He hath a lady wiser, fairer, truer, Than ever Greek did compass in his arms; —Act I, scene iii, lines 275-76 This is straight out of the medieval tales, when knights were supposed to fight in the names of their ladies in accord with the rules of courtly love (see page I-54) ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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