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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... human activity . The Athenians are lovers of beauty and of the mind . Athena is the goddess of wisdom as well as of war . The highest and most distinctive Athenian activities are thus private , not public . Where love and art enter Rome ...
... human activity . The Athenians are lovers of beauty and of the mind . Athena is the goddess of wisdom as well as of war . The highest and most distinctive Athenian activities are thus private , not public . Where love and art enter Rome ...
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... human thinking as a whole . Human beings naturally see double : Methinks I see these things with parted eye , When everything seems double . ( 4.1.188-89 ) We see what is before us with our body's eye and see what it means with our ...
... human thinking as a whole . Human beings naturally see double : Methinks I see these things with parted eye , When everything seems double . ( 4.1.188-89 ) We see what is before us with our body's eye and see what it means with our ...
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... human soul . Since early modernity , philosophers have tended to separate and even to op- pose reason and passion . Reason is often thought to be loveless calculation and passion to be irrational feeling , with nothing joining them from ...
... human soul . Since early modernity , philosophers have tended to separate and even to op- pose reason and passion . Reason is often thought to be loveless calculation and passion to be irrational feeling , with nothing joining them from ...
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... human , half divine , once fought a creature that was half man and half beast ( 5.1.44-47 ) . Oberon and Titania quarrel over a " changeling " boy ( 2.1.120 ) . Oberon's love juice duplicates Cupid's fiery arrow ( 2.1.155–72 ) ...
... human , half divine , once fought a creature that was half man and half beast ( 5.1.44-47 ) . Oberon and Titania quarrel over a " changeling " boy ( 2.1.120 ) . Oberon's love juice duplicates Cupid's fiery arrow ( 2.1.155–72 ) ...
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... human to see any of the fairies . Yet , he cannot recall what he saw , except to suppose that it was a dream , as Oberon wished him to think ( 4.1.63–68 ) . And when Bottom decides to have Quince write a ballad of the dream , he names ...
... human to see any of the fairies . Yet , he cannot recall what he saw , except to suppose that it was a dream , as Oberon wished him to think ( 4.1.63–68 ) . And when Bottom decides to have Quince write a ballad of the dream , he names ...
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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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