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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... Titania quarrel over a " changeling " boy ( 2.1.120 ) . Oberon's love juice duplicates Cupid's fiery arrow ( 2.1.155–72 ) . Lysander and Demetrius are " two ... rival enemies " ( 4.1.141 ) . Puck mistakes the one for the other , turning ...
... Titania quarrel over a " changeling " boy ( 2.1.120 ) . Oberon's love juice duplicates Cupid's fiery arrow ( 2.1.155–72 ) . Lysander and Demetrius are " two ... rival enemies " ( 4.1.141 ) . Puck mistakes the one for the other , turning ...
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... Titania says , her narrative contradicts itself . Titania's titanic narrative proves mythical in matter as well as in manner . While the play's action contradicts Titania's narrative , more surprisingly , the words of another character ...
... Titania says , her narrative contradicts itself . Titania's titanic narrative proves mythical in matter as well as in manner . While the play's action contradicts Titania's narrative , more surprisingly , the words of another character ...
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... Titania ever ac- tually took place . Despite what we have seen , the episode may have been as purely imaginary as Oberon courting Phillida in the guise of Corin , Titania's narrative of the upheaval in nature , and many other episodes ...
... Titania ever ac- tually took place . Despite what we have seen , the episode may have been as purely imaginary as Oberon courting Phillida in the guise of Corin , Titania's narrative of the upheaval in nature , and many other episodes ...
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... [ 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 , notwithstanding his incontinent and even brutal past ...
... [ 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 , notwithstanding his incontinent and even brutal past ...
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... Titania may be " strongly reminiscent of classical deities , " yet Oberon " smacks of medieval romance , " and he and Titania are " more than once associated with India . " Even less Athenian , commentators say , are the fairies and the ...
... Titania may be " strongly reminiscent of classical deities , " yet Oberon " smacks of medieval romance , " and he and Titania are " more than once associated with India . " Even less Athenian , commentators say , are the fairies and the ...
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