The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamThe 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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... Plutarch , " the Athenians considered the writing of comedy so undig- nified and vulgar a business that there was a law forbidding a member of the Areopagus to write comedies . " A serious book on a comedy thus runs at least two risks ...
... Plutarch , " the Athenians considered the writing of comedy so undig- nified and vulgar a business that there was a law forbidding a member of the Areopagus to write comedies . " A serious book on a comedy thus runs at least two risks ...
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... by reading all or part of earlier versions of the manuscript . Note 1. Plutarch , Whether the Athenians Were More Famous in War or in Wisdom , 348b . Introduction A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the foundation of Athens. 2 Preface.
... by reading all or part of earlier versions of the manuscript . Note 1. Plutarch , Whether the Athenians Were More Famous in War or in Wisdom , 348b . Introduction A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the foundation of Athens. 2 Preface.
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... Plutarch , 15 recounts : Didst not thou [ Titania ] lead him through the glimmering night , From Perigouna , whom he ravished ; And make him with fair Aegles break his faith , With Ariadne and Antiopa ? ( 2.1.77-80 ) Yet ...
... Plutarch , 15 recounts : Didst not thou [ Titania ] lead him through the glimmering night , From Perigouna , whom he ravished ; And make him with fair Aegles break his faith , With Ariadne and Antiopa ? ( 2.1.77-80 ) Yet ...
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... Plutarch gives to Theseus's own father ( Aegeus ) , for whose death The- seus was at least indirectly responsible . 18 Whereas A Midsummer Night's Dream begins with a father invoking " the ancient privilege of Athens " ( 1.1.41 ) to ...
... Plutarch gives to Theseus's own father ( Aegeus ) , for whose death The- seus was at least indirectly responsible . 18 Whereas A Midsummer Night's Dream begins with a father invoking " the ancient privilege of Athens " ( 1.1.41 ) to ...
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... Plutarch , Theseus's title is king : Plutarch , Theseus , 24.2 ; Comparison of Theseus and Ro- mulus , 2.1 . Historically , Athens did not have a leader with the title of duke until nearly the end of the Crusades , in 1280 A.D .; see ...
... Plutarch , Theseus's title is king : Plutarch , Theseus , 24.2 ; Comparison of Theseus and Ro- mulus , 2.1 . Historically , Athens did not have a leader with the title of duke until nearly the end of the Crusades , in 1280 A.D .; see ...
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