On 4/3/07 15:35, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: RE: [NABOKV-L] S.S. re: E. Darwin's poem
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:22:29 -0500
From: Fet, Victor <fet@MARSHALL.EDU> <mailto:fet@MARSHALL.EDU>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: A <45E9DF9B.70005@utk.edu> <mailto:45E9DF9B.70005@utk.edu>
>>>what other works containing important parts written in verse and in prose we could
compare with PF?
Why not "Hamlet", for instance? I know nothing of the literary theory one can put behind it, but one can claim that its (and other Shakespearian plays) structure profoundly affected poetry/prose combinations. We have so many Shakespeare/Hamlet influences in VN in general and PF specifically, hidden and not (including its very title), that PF "format" itself could be seen as one of those.
Victor Fet
Dear Victor: we also have THE PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY! Signs of WS mocking the more bombastic elements of Elizabethan drama? — in spite of Hamlet’s ‘don’t over-act’ warnings to the visiting players.
Stan Kelly-Bootle