The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamLexington Books, 2003 - 211 pagina's 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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... kill [ ing ] truth " ( 3.2.129 ) . Puck , who initially finds the greatest amusement in " two at once woo [ ing ] one " ( 3.2.118 ) , finally welcomes that " [ t ] wo of both kinds makes up four " ( 3.2.438 ) . The moon , whose own ...
... kill [ ing ] truth " ( 3.2.129 ) . Puck , who initially finds the greatest amusement in " two at once woo [ ing ] one " ( 3.2.118 ) , finally welcomes that " [ t ] wo of both kinds makes up four " ( 3.2.438 ) . The moon , whose own ...
Pagina 7
... kill himself , / Which when I saw rehearsed " ; " It is not for you ; I have heard it over " ( 5.1.64-65 , 67-68 , 77 ) . Philostrate's re- peated claim , which seems wholly unnecessary to the plot in any ordinary sense , implicitly ...
... kill himself , / Which when I saw rehearsed " ; " It is not for you ; I have heard it over " ( 5.1.64-65 , 67-68 , 77 ) . Philostrate's re- peated claim , which seems wholly unnecessary to the plot in any ordinary sense , implicitly ...
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... killing one another , 30 Theseus tells , again in the context of art , of his ending the Theban civil war in which Oedipus's sons slaughtered each other ( 5.1.48-51 ) .31 Between them , Hippolyta and Theseus span the five generations of ...
... killing one another , 30 Theseus tells , again in the context of art , of his ending the Theban civil war in which Oedipus's sons slaughtered each other ( 5.1.48-51 ) .31 Between them , Hippolyta and Theseus span the five generations of ...
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