RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The romantic Robert Burton or the art of forgery A1 Sáez Hidalgo, Ana K1 Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy K1 Literatura inglesa - Historia y crítica K1 5505.10 Filología AB The art of forgery is, probably, one of the most ancient known arts, as we can read in Caro Baroja’s work (1991). 1 Cases such as that of the “Paeneste Fibula”, Ossian or Chatterton’s Rowley are well known examples of invented objects or pieces of literature which pretend to be ancient. Some of these feigned works appeared by the end of the eighteenth century or the beginning of the nineteenth, so that this kind of forgery is often connected with Romanticism. In this milieu we find Charles Lamb, the author of the text we are commenting, entitled Curious Fragments, Extracted from a Commonplace Book, which Belonged to Robert Burton, the Famous Author of the “Anatomy of Melancholy”.Lamb is well known thanks to his Tales from Shakespeare (1807), a version of the plays for children, and his Essays of Elia (1823). He was a close friend of Coleridge’s (whom he admired, mainly in his early years). It was Coleridge … [Texto extraído del artículo de Ana Sáez Hidalgo]. PB Sociedad Hispano-Portuguesa de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses SN 1135-7789 YR 1998 FD 1998 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51169 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51169 LA eng NO SEDERI: yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, Nº. 9, 1998, págs. 179-188 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 22-nov-2024