The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamLexington Books, 2003 - 211 páginas The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" studies Shakespeare's portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard's most memorable comedies. Coupling careful attention to detail with interpretive breadth, The Soul of Athens examines the nature of love, the natural doubleness of human thinking and the ambiguous relation of image and reality, as well as patriarchy and democracy, and heroic and moral virtue. |
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... appears more curious - and more needless - than Philostrate's thrice - uttered insistence that he saw the entire Pyramus and Thisbe play rehearsed , even though we saw Puck interrupt it after just ten lines ( 3.1.73ff . ) : " [ I ] n ...
... appears more curious - and more needless - than Philostrate's thrice - uttered insistence that he saw the entire Pyramus and Thisbe play rehearsed , even though we saw Puck interrupt it after just ten lines ( 3.1.73ff . ) : " [ I ] n ...
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... appear in Athens until the time of Solon , 2 who lived a long time after Theseus and an even longer time after Cadmus , with whom Hippolyta says she once hunted in Crete ( 4.1.111-13 ) . Nor is it much less anachronistic that the ...
... appear in Athens until the time of Solon , 2 who lived a long time after Theseus and an even longer time after Cadmus , with whom Hippolyta says she once hunted in Crete ( 4.1.111-13 ) . Nor is it much less anachronistic that the ...
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... appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream . " Ac- tion " occurs twice , once meaning a full rehearsal of the artisans ' play ( 3.1.5 ) and once referring to Cobweb bringing Bottom a honey - bag ( 4.1.14 ) . By contrast , " play " and its ...
... appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream . " Ac- tion " occurs twice , once meaning a full rehearsal of the artisans ' play ( 3.1.5 ) and once referring to Cobweb bringing Bottom a honey - bag ( 4.1.14 ) . By contrast , " play " and its ...
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... appear in Coriolanus ; we also see that the republican leaders are inclined to Greek philosophical teachings and away from the gods of Rome . See , further , Jan H. Blits , The End of the Ancient Republic ( Lanham , Md .: Rowman & Lit ...
... appear in Coriolanus ; we also see that the republican leaders are inclined to Greek philosophical teachings and away from the gods of Rome . See , further , Jan H. Blits , The End of the Ancient Republic ( Lanham , Md .: Rowman & Lit ...
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