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Shakespeare and platonic beauty / John Vyvyan.
Van Pelt Library PR3069.L6 V87 2013
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3069.L6 V87 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vyvyan, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Philosophy.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Manners and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. All's well that ends well.
- Platonic love in literature.
- Love in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., [2013]
- Summary:
- 'If a clearly conceived philosophy is implicit' in Shakespeare's plays, Vyvyan writes, 'then it is by allegory and parable that it is expressed'. The recognition of this he considers 'immensely enhances our enjoyment of the plays and gives them a new dimension and richness'. Vyvyan traces the influence on Shakespeare of the Platonic ideas of beauty and love, as developed by Plotinus, and given a profoundly Christian ethos by Marsilio Ficino in Renaissance. Florence. In the comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, All's Well that Ends Well, he illustrates how the miracle of bringing order out of confusion is performed by love, while in Troilus and Cressida he shows that breaking faith with the ideal - as Agamemnon, Cressida and Hector all do in Troilus and Cressida - sows the seeds of tragedy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Theseus and Hippolyta
- The classical background
- Plato in Florence
- An introduction to the heroine as the heavenly Venus
- "A midsummer night's dream"
- "As you like it"
- "All's well that ends well"
- "Troilus annd Cressida"
- Conclusion
- Selected stanzas from "An hymne in honour of beautie"
- Passages from Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the "Symposium"
- Pico Della Mirandola's version of The ascent.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0856832944
- 9780856832949
- OCLC:
- 830368438
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