Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009525, Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:53:32 -0800

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Fw: Fw: Fw: Shakespeare plagiarist!
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
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> TA Colquhoun
> It seems we are better endowed with basic materials than other
living
> things. For these there are only two possibilities: run and hunt for food
or
> run and avoid becoming food ...
> One may consider Hamlet, as well as Lolita variants of the Oedipal
Myth.
> There were plays written by Aeschylus ( Seven Against Thebes ) ,
Sophocles
> ( his famous Trilogy ), Euripedes ( The Phoenicians and The Suplicants) as
> well as Seneca´s "Oedipus" and "The Phoenicians". Corneille and Voltaire
> wrote "Oedipus", Racine a "Tebaida", Jean Anouilh " Antigona", Cocteau "
La
> Machine Infernale" and more than forty less illustrious tragedies.
> VN wrote about indirectly about plagiarism while discussing the
> influence of Jane Austen on Charles Dickens and explaining what marks an
> author´s unique style.
> It is always worth checking again what he has said on the subject...
> Jansy
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> > From: "Tina Colquhoun" <tacolquhoun@btopenworld.com>
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> > > >I also believe this is an opportunity to discuss the
> > > cyclic nature of ideas and plotlines throughout the ages.<
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> > > Isn't it common knowledge that only seven (or is it twelve??) basic
plot
> > > lines exist...??
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> > > TA Colquhoun
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