Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780333949474
Subjects: Cultural studies; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Drama; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Textbooks; English; Literary Criticism; Europe - Great Britain - General; Shakespeare; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Theater - History & Criticism
First sentence: According to Plutarch, some historiographers of his time dismissed 'the uttermost parts of their maps,' saying that these remote foreign regions were 'unnavigable, rude, full of venomous beasts, Scythian ice, and frozen seas' and therefore unworthy of scholarly attention; but by doing so, adds Plutarch, the historiographers were merely trying to hide either the limits of their knowledge or their utter ignorance.