Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture ISSN: 1983-4675
[email protected] Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil Silvares, Lavinia The deep search of knowledge: George Chapman's glosses in The Shadow of Night (1594) Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, vol. 39, núm. 3, julio-septiembre, 2017, pp. 321- 327 Universidade Estadual de Maringá Maringá, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307452897011 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Acta Scientiarum http://www.uem.br/acta ISSN printed: 1983-4675 ISSN on-line: 1983-4683 Doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v39i3.32208 The deep search of knowledge: George Chapman's glosses in The Shadow of Night (1594) Lavinia Silvares Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Estrada do Caminho Velho, 333, 07252-323, Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil. *Author for correspondence. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. This paper addresses the glosses of the first edition of George Chapman's philosophical elegy, The Shadow of Night (1594), as a specific and common practice of prescriptive work, produced by Renaissance authors following the ancient tradition of the auctoris interpretatio. Assuming the gloss as an exposition and scrutiny of the places of poetic invention and elocution, Chapman puts himself in the position of both annotator and authorizer of his text, defining a particular legibility for the poem within the learned circles of the English court of Shakespeare’s time.