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Shakespeare and platonic beauty /
Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and All's Well That Ends Well, the heroines bring to l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Shepheard-Walwyn,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Epigraph; Publishers' Note; 1
- Theseus and Hippolyta; 2
- The Classical Background; 3
- Plato in Florence; 4
- An Introduction to the Heroine as the Heavenly Venus; 5
- A Midsummer Night's Dream; 6
- As You Like It; 7
- All's Well that Ends Well; 8
- Troilus and Cressida; 9
- Conclusion; APPENDICES; 1
- Selected Stanzas from An Hymne in Honour of Beautie; 2
- Passages from Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Symposium; 3
- Pico della Mirandola's Version of the Ascent; Author's Shakespearean References; Index.