La frase que lanzó mil barcos al mar (The Phrase that Launched a Thousand Ships)

Abstract

Spanish abstract: Este artículo analiza un complejo intertextual formado en la obra de Christopher Marlowe y de William Shakespeare, en torno a la figura de Helena de Troya y de la imagen de "el rostro que lanzó mil naves al mar". Mostramos cómo Marlowe desarrolló una poética de la auto-alusión sutil, y un uso paradójico del arquetipo o parangón, cuyas posibilidades conceptuales y dramáticas serían reconocidas, extendidas y desarrolladas por Shakespeare.

English abstract: This paper examines an intertextual complex in the works of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, involving the figure of Helen of Troy and the image of "the face that launched a thousand ships". Marlowe is shown to have developed a poetics of subtle self-allusion and a paradoxical use of the notion of the pattern or paragon whose conceptual and dramatic possibilities were recognized, extended and developed by Shakespeare.

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Keywords: Pattern, Rhetoric, Poetics, Conceptual art, Stylistics, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Drama, Helen of Troy, Figures of thought, Archetypes,