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词汇 seacoasts in bohemia
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seacoasts in Bohemia. The expression is used in referring to errors made by authors, deriving from The Winter’s Tale, where Shakespeare writes of a vessel “driven by a storm on the coast of Bohemia,” although Bohemia has no seacoast. Shakespeare made a number of such errors, as have many writers. In Robin- son Crusoe Defoe has his hero swim naked to a wrecked ship and then put biscuits he finds there into his pockets. As for Shakespeare again, the most recent research reveals that he did not blunder, as is so often asserted, when he wrote of a seacoast in (landlocked) Bohemia. According to one biographer, “Un- der King Premystl Ottocar II (1258–78) the kingdom of Bohe- mia stretched to the Adriatic Sea, and in 1526, upon the acces- sion of the first Hapsburg to the throne of Bohemia, the realm of the king of Bohemia comprised the archduchy of Austria, which bordered the Adriatic Sea between the territories of the Venetian Republic.”
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