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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... passion and its speech - illustrate each other , the one by emulating poetry , the other by portraying love . Shakespeare shows that poetry and love are linked largely by the imagi- nation . As Theseus disparagingly observes , both ...
... passion and its speech - illustrate each other , the one by emulating poetry , the other by portraying love . Shakespeare shows that poetry and love are linked largely by the imagi- nation . As Theseus disparagingly observes , both ...
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... passion , are cen- tral not only to Athens , but to the premodern conception of the human soul . Since early modernity , philosophers have tended to separate and even to op- pose reason and passion . Reason is often thought to be ...
... passion , are cen- tral not only to Athens , but to the premodern conception of the human soul . Since early modernity , philosophers have tended to separate and even to op- pose reason and passion . Reason is often thought to be ...
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... passion- ate , 13 new and full.14 And whereas the play begins with lovers either sundered or threatened with separation , it ends with the " couples ... eternally ... knit ” ( 4.1.180 ) . More particularly , doubles frequently take the ...
... passion- ate , 13 new and full.14 And whereas the play begins with lovers either sundered or threatened with separation , it ends with the " couples ... eternally ... knit ” ( 4.1.180 ) . More particularly , doubles frequently take the ...
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