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Verlag: Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1994
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Reprint, stapled. Zustand: Gut. pp. 1-23. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Authors names handwritten on cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: To be or not to be - that is the question well, yes: because we have all been brought up on Shakespeare s words. A modem English writer would hardly use the word be in such contexts; he would prefer live or exist and he would most probably prefer also problem to question . Hamlet s problem, he would say, is whether he should go on living/existing or not . For the verb to be , in modern English, has become almost exclusively an auxiliary verb. I am here , but not I am ; I would like my son to be happier , but not I would like my son to be ; Elizabeth was not at home in March 1945 , but not Elizabeth was not in March 1945 . Even when some form of to be is used in the existential sense, one adds a functional and meaningless there , since our ear is no longer used to pure be-ing : There is a God ; There was an ancient town called Epidamnus , and the like. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.