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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... 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 corruption , 10 the love ...
... 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 corruption , 10 the love ...
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... mind's eye . Able to separate the significance of a sight from the sight itself , we are able to see or to imagine what is absent and therefore to generalize ( " The course of true love never did run smooth " [ 1.1.134 ] ) ; to speak in ...
... mind's eye . Able to separate the significance of a sight from the sight itself , we are able to see or to imagine what is absent and therefore to generalize ( " The course of true love never did run smooth " [ 1.1.134 ] ) ; to speak in ...
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... minds till now " ( 5.1.72-73 ) -seek to trade their manual arts for arts of the mind.26 In Shakespeare's presentation , Thesean Athens is already a city of artisans and of high art . Right from the start , leisure seems to have ...
... minds till now " ( 5.1.72-73 ) -seek to trade their manual arts for arts of the mind.26 In Shakespeare's presentation , Thesean Athens is already a city of artisans and of high art . Right from the start , leisure seems to have ...
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... mind . Shakespeare , in fact , treats thematically Athens's transformation from barbaric to civilized , through a series of substitutions , immediately follow- ing the young lovers ' night in the woods . Beginning with Theseus's ap ...
... mind . Shakespeare , in fact , treats thematically Athens's transformation from barbaric to civilized , through a series of substitutions , immediately follow- ing the young lovers ' night in the woods . Beginning with Theseus's ap ...
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