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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Pagina 6
... says her quarrel with Oberon has caused ( 2.1.82-117 ) . Yet , nothing else in the play suggests or even permits the floods or disorder . Indeed , not only does the rest of the plot plainly con- tradict what Titania says , her narrative ...
... says her quarrel with Oberon has caused ( 2.1.82-117 ) . Yet , nothing else in the play suggests or even permits the floods or disorder . Indeed , not only does the rest of the plot plainly con- tradict what Titania says , her narrative ...
Pagina 7
... says that she and Lysander must " starve [ their ] sight / From lovers ' food " until they meet in the woods , Helena will tell Demetrius where they have gone so that she can " have his sight thither and back again " ( 1.1.222-23 , 251 ) ...
... says that she and Lysander must " starve [ their ] sight / From lovers ' food " until they meet in the woods , Helena will tell Demetrius where they have gone so that she can " have his sight thither and back again " ( 1.1.222-23 , 251 ) ...
Pagina 9
... says not another word and disappears from the play with hardly a trace . And just as no father is present during the wedding celebration , so , too , even the parents originally included in Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1.2.56-59 ) are missing ...
... says not another word and disappears from the play with hardly a trace . And just as no father is present during the wedding celebration , so , too , even the parents originally included in Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1.2.56-59 ) are missing ...
Pagina 10
... says she once hunted in Crete ( 4.1.111-13 ) . Nor is it much less anachronistic that the productive arts - weaving , carpentry , bellows - mending , tailoring , wood - joining , and tinkering - appear to be thriving . And while ...
... says she once hunted in Crete ( 4.1.111-13 ) . Nor is it much less anachronistic that the productive arts - weaving , carpentry , bellows - mending , tailoring , wood - joining , and tinkering - appear to be thriving . And while ...
Pagina 11
... says that his are slow and extols them for their musical sound . The slow and musical replace the fast and fierce . And al- though Hippolyta praised the Spartan hounds in Crete for their " mutual cry " ( 4.1.116 ) , Theseus lauds his ...
... says that his are slow and extols them for their musical sound . The slow and musical replace the fast and fierce . And al- though Hippolyta praised the Spartan hounds in Crete for their " mutual cry " ( 4.1.116 ) , Theseus lauds his ...
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