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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... presents the relation of image and reality , art and life , with deliberate ambiguity throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream . Implicit in the title , the ambiguity is especially present in the woods and largely character- izes the ...
... presents the relation of image and reality , art and life , with deliberate ambiguity throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream . Implicit in the title , the ambiguity is especially present in the woods and largely character- izes the ...
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... presents Theseus as a lover , but his presentation , like so much else , is ambiguous . Theseus begins and ends the play expressing his im- patient desire . Whether four days or three hours , waiting for his desire's satisfaction is ...
... presents Theseus as a lover , but his presentation , like so much else , is ambiguous . Theseus begins and ends the play expressing his im- patient desire . Whether four days or three hours , waiting for his desire's satisfaction is ...
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... present during the wedding celebration , so , too , even the parents originally included in Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1.2.56-59 ) are missing from the play . Shakespeare seems to understand Theseus's overthrow of patriarchal au- thority as ...
... present during the wedding celebration , so , too , even the parents originally included in Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1.2.56-59 ) are missing from the play . Shakespeare seems to understand Theseus's overthrow of patriarchal au- thority as ...
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... present at its founding . Notwithstanding the artisans ' efforts , tragedy , for example , did not appear in Athens until the time of Solon , 2 who lived a long time after Theseus and an even longer time after Cadmus , with whom ...
... present at its founding . Notwithstanding the artisans ' efforts , tragedy , for example , did not appear in Athens until the time of Solon , 2 who lived a long time after Theseus and an even longer time after Cadmus , with whom ...
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... present only in song . Shakespeare similarly brings together the autochthonous be- ginning and the fratricidal culmination of Thebes . While Hippolyta re- counts her hunting with Cadmus , who founded Thebes by sowing the teeth of a ...
... present only in song . Shakespeare similarly brings together the autochthonous be- ginning and the fratricidal culmination of Thebes . While Hippolyta re- counts her hunting with Cadmus , who founded Thebes by sowing the teeth of a ...
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