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- Title
PLAUTUS' MOSTELLARIA, I. ii. 91-156: A POSSIBLE SOURCE FOR GEORGE HERBERT'S 'THE WORLD' AND 'SIN (I)'.
- Authors
Coatalen, Guillaume
- Abstract
It is a well known fact that poet George Herbert used few classical materials to build his Temple, apart from the obvious 'Gordian knots' in 'Divinitie.' The allusions in his poetry are not obvious for varied reasons. First, the poems are far more concise than the Latin. Allegories replace Philolaches' somewhat lengthy 'topical-rhetorical monologue.' Undoubtedly, Herbert knew the Latin play. He must have read it at Westminster school, Westminster, England, which performed Mostellaria in 1569 and may have attended lectures on Plautus at Cambridge, England, since Plautine plays were introduced in the curriculum in the early sixteenth century and featured in the Directions by linguist Richard Holdsworth among the fourth-year set texts.
- Subjects
OLD English poets; POETRY (Literary form); ALLUSIONS; HERBERT, George, 1593-1633; PERSONIFICATION in literature; CURRICULUM
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/510023