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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... object , while poetry im- itates love by representing it . Love and poetry - the passion and its speech - illustrate each other , the one by emulating poetry , the other by portraying love . Shakespeare shows that poetry and love are ...
... object , while poetry im- itates love by representing it . Love and poetry - the passion and its speech - illustrate each other , the one by emulating poetry , the other by portraying love . Shakespeare shows that poetry and love are ...
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... object . It naturally projects an imaginary form upon what it sees : Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and dignity . ( 1.1.232-33 ) But love also tends to deny that it embellishes . Owing precisely ...
... object . It naturally projects an imaginary form upon what it sees : Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and dignity . ( 1.1.232-33 ) But love also tends to deny that it embellishes . Owing precisely ...
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... object as well : " To what , my love , shall I compare thine eyne ? " ( 3.2.138 ) . If love is the sight of 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 ...
... object as well : " To what , my love , shall I compare thine eyne ? " ( 3.2.138 ) . If love is the sight of 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 ...
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