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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... 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 only late and only as forms of Greek ...
... 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 only late and only as forms of Greek ...
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... beauty in a brow of Egypt " [ 5.1.10-11 ] ) . Both involve seeing something as something else . The double vision of imagination is especially clear in art , where , contrary to what the artisans fear , imitations announce their ...
... beauty in a brow of Egypt " [ 5.1.10-11 ] ) . Both involve seeing something as something else . The double vision of imagination is especially clear in art , where , contrary to what the artisans fear , imitations announce their ...
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... beauty and to wisdom . Shakespeare's study of Athens is thus a study not only of a particular city , but of the doubleness of the human soul . Coupling the triumph of art and the love of the beautiful , Athens , we might say , is a ...
... beauty and to wisdom . Shakespeare's study of Athens is thus a study not only of a particular city , but of the doubleness of the human soul . Coupling the triumph of art and the love of the beautiful , Athens , we might say , is a ...
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... beauty in the beloved , for the two young men it is the sight of beauty especially in the beloved's eyes : " as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes " ( 1.1.230 ; also 1.1.183 , 188 ; 2.2.90-92 , 120-21 ; 3.2.450-57 ) . Theseus , by ...
... beauty in the beloved , for the two young men it is the sight of beauty especially in the beloved's eyes : " as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes " ( 1.1.230 ; also 1.1.183 , 188 ; 2.2.90-92 , 120-21 ; 3.2.450-57 ) . Theseus , by ...
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... beauty and the highest accomplishments in art , disparages both love and art . In a most important way , Athens's founder does not fit into the city that he founds . If heroic ambition places Coriolanus outside of Rome , heroic taste ...
... beauty and the highest accomplishments in art , disparages both love and art . In a most important way , Athens's founder does not fit into the city that he founds . If heroic ambition places Coriolanus outside of Rome , heroic taste ...
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