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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... tive in poetry and the relation of whole to parts - both of which the artisans fail to grasp — are explicit themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream . I owe special thanks to Kathleen Blits , Harvey Flaumenhaft. ix Preface.
... tive in poetry and the relation of whole to parts - both of which the artisans fail to grasp — are explicit themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream . I owe special thanks to Kathleen Blits , Harvey Flaumenhaft. ix Preface.
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... artisans who , though literal- minded and unerotic themselves , prepare and perform a play about love ( 1.2.11-91 ; 3.1.8-98 ; 5.1.56-57 , 108-338 ) ; and the king of the fairies who , among other things , imitates a poetic imitation of ...
... artisans who , though literal- minded and unerotic themselves , prepare and perform a play about love ( 1.2.11-91 ; 3.1.8-98 ; 5.1.56-57 , 108-338 ) ; and the king of the fairies who , among other things , imitates a poetic imitation of ...
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... artisans fear , imitations announce their simultaneous reality and unreality.12 They are what they are not and are not what they are : Bottom is and is not Pyra- mus . And we , as spectators , naturally distinguish between the image and ...
... artisans fear , imitations announce their simultaneous reality and unreality.12 They are what they are not and are not what they are : Bottom is and is not Pyra- mus . And we , as spectators , naturally distinguish between the image and ...
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... artisans , combining both senses , emulate actors performing a drama — a drama which is itself based on a tra- ditional love story ( Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4.55-166 ) . And while it is an im- itation of an imitation , the artisans ...
... artisans , combining both senses , emulate actors performing a drama — a drama which is itself based on a tra- ditional love story ( Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4.55-166 ) . And while it is an im- itation of an imitation , the artisans ...
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... artisans ' play ( 4.1.203-17 ) . Puck , who mimics the shape and sound of any- thing ( e.g. , 2.1.44-57 ; 3.1.101-6 ) , regards the lovers ' imbroglio as a play , in which he is playwright and stage manager as well as actor and audience ...
... artisans ' play ( 4.1.203-17 ) . Puck , who mimics the shape and sound of any- thing ( e.g. , 2.1.44-57 ; 3.1.101-6 ) , regards the lovers ' imbroglio as a play , in which he is playwright and stage manager as well as actor and audience ...
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The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Jan H. Blits Visualização de excertos - 2003 |
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