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. Through
a painstakingly close reading of the play, author Jan H. Blits
shows how Shakespeare's portrayal of this legendary first democracy
illuminates the natural doubleness of the human soul by emphasizing
the lure of both beauty and wisdom.A Midsummer Night's Dream is
thus 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, 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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