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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... hand and filial piety on the other . Rome is thus the stuff of tragedy . As we see in Coriolanus , the hero who prides himself above all on his godlike self - sufficiency ulti- mately has no place in the city he saves or in the family ...
... hand and filial piety on the other . Rome is thus the stuff of tragedy . As we see in Coriolanus , the hero who prides himself above all on his godlike self - sufficiency ulti- mately has no place in the city he saves or in the family ...
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... hand and the artisans ' rehearsal into action on the other . Further , while the fairies tend not merely to speak but to recite narratives , their narratives often prove to be fictitious even within the fiction of Shakespeare's play ...
... hand and the artisans ' rehearsal into action on the other . Further , while the fairies tend not merely to speak but to recite narratives , their narratives often prove to be fictitious even within the fiction of Shakespeare's play ...
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... hand and freed from patriarchal authority on the other : Egeus , I will overbear your will ; For in the temple , by and by , with us , These couples shall eternally be knit . ( 4.1.178-80 ) The claims of erotic love defeat those of ...
... hand and freed from patriarchal authority on the other : Egeus , I will overbear your will ; For in the temple , by and by , with us , These couples shall eternally be knit . ( 4.1.178-80 ) The claims of erotic love defeat those of ...
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... leave and to which they finally return . The curious combination of the characters ' apparent universality on the one hand and incompleteness 37 on the other reflects the genuine universality of Athens itself. Introduction ~ 13.
... leave and to which they finally return . The curious combination of the characters ' apparent universality on the one hand and incompleteness 37 on the other reflects the genuine universality of Athens itself. Introduction ~ 13.
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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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