Soul of Athens

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Athens (Greece),  In literature,  Knowledge,  Comedy,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, midsummer night's dream,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, knowledge and learning,  Knowledge and learning,  Literature,  Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, William),  Midsummer night's dream

People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: Athens (Greece)