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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... 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 . It may seem to ...
... 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 . It may seem to ...
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... and 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.
... and 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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... Athenian who might be thought to have a pub- lic office or function is Philostrate . But although his Greek name means " lover of battle , " Philostrate's sole duty is to be Theseus's " manager of mirth " ( 5.1.35 ) . All the Athenian ...
... Athenian who might be thought to have a pub- lic office or function is Philostrate . But although his Greek name means " lover of battle , " Philostrate's sole duty is to be Theseus's " manager of mirth " ( 5.1.35 ) . All the Athenian ...
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... Athenians are lovers of beauty and of the 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 ...
... Athenians are lovers of beauty and of the 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 ...
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... Athenian farmers ( originally Athens's second largest class24 ) are never mentioned , 25 the artisans- " Hard - handed men that work in Athens here , / Which never labour'd in their minds till now " ( 5.1.72-73 ) -seek to trade their ...
... Athenian farmers ( originally Athens's second largest class24 ) are never mentioned , 25 the artisans- " Hard - handed men that work in Athens here , / Which never labour'd in their minds till now " ( 5.1.72-73 ) -seek to trade their ...
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