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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... authority of fathers and hence of the ancestral gods ( " To you your father should be as a god " [ 1.1.47 ] ) . And he does so in the name of freedom or " consent " in marriage ( 1.1.40 , 82 ; cf. 1.1.25 ; 4.1.157-58 ) .17 Whereas his ...
... authority of fathers and hence of the ancestral gods ( " To you your father should be as a god " [ 1.1.47 ] ) . And he does so in the name of freedom or " consent " in marriage ( 1.1.40 , 82 ; cf. 1.1.25 ; 4.1.157-58 ) .17 Whereas his ...
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... authority . Love is linked to marriage on the one hand and freed from patriarchal authority on the other : Egeus , I will overbear your will ; For in the temple , by and by , with us , These couples shall eternally be knit . ( 4.1.178 ...
... authority . Love is linked to marriage on the one hand and freed from patriarchal authority on the other : Egeus , I will overbear your will ; For in the temple , by and by , with us , These couples shall eternally be knit . ( 4.1.178 ...
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... authority . Once The- seus acts , humans speak of Greek gods only in the titles or the dialogue of the artisans ' poetry or in profane , mock oaths ( 5.1.48 , 52 , 176 , 273-74 , 307-8 , 323-28 ) . The gods , now existing chiefly in ...
... authority . Once The- seus acts , humans speak of Greek gods only in the titles or the dialogue of the artisans ' poetry or in profane , mock oaths ( 5.1.48 , 52 , 176 , 273-74 , 307-8 , 323-28 ) . The gods , now existing chiefly in ...
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... authority of age . Crete and Sparta , the oldest and most vener- able cities of Greece , whose fundamental principle , moreover , is reverence for age , and whose laws are traceable to Zeus and Apollo , 27 are surpassed by Athens ...
... authority of age . Crete and Sparta , the oldest and most vener- able cities of Greece , whose fundamental principle , moreover , is reverence for age , and whose laws are traceable to Zeus and Apollo , 27 are surpassed by Athens ...
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