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The soul of Athens : Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream

Title: The soul of Athens : Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Jan H. Blits.
Author: Blits, Jan H.
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2003.

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Description

x, 211 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The 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. In a thorough, line-by-line analysis of the play, Jan H. Blits shows how Shakespeare illuminates the natural doubleness of the human soul by emphasizing the lure of both beauty and wisdom in his illustration of this first democracy. Blits argues that A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's examination not only of a particular city at a particular time, but of the essential duality of the human soul. Coupling careful attention to detail with interpretive breadth, The Soul of Athens examines the nature of love and of art, and the ambiguous relationship between image and reality, as well as the tensions between patriarchy and democracy, and heroic and moral virtue."--Jacket

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Genre/Form

Comedies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

0739106538
9780739106532
073910652X
9780739106525

LCCN

2003005437

OCLC

ocm51867836
51867836
SCSB-14693239

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library