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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    de Shakespeare William ...
    "This edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes the comedy seriously. Like my previous Hackett editions, it gives full weight to Shakespeare’s dramatic setting, which other editors (and scholars) almost always ignore or at least fail adequately to consider. Ancient Athens is the core, not the mere background, of Midsummer Night's Dream. As we shall see, Shakespeare focuses, in particular, on the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Deadly Thought

    Hamlet and the Human Soul

    de Jan H. Blits ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Heart of Rome

    Ancient Rome's Political Culture

    de Jan H. Blits ...
    The essays in this book examine the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Relying on the writings of ancient authors, the essays analyze significant political developments and events. They attempt to draw out the meaning of what the authors say and impose no theory on the ancient writings. Nor do they ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Plato's Cleitophon

    On Socrates and the Modern Mind

    de Jan H. Blits, Clifford Orwin, David Roochnik ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragment. However, in the last fifteen years, the complete and authentic dialogue was rediscovered. Upon its discovery, scholars have almost universally agreed that the Cleitophon is the introduction to Plato ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Spirit, Soul, and City

    Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'

    de Jan H. Blits ...
    Spirit, Soul, and City offers a new reading of Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying the founding of the Roman republic and the life and soul of its legendary warrior, Coriolanus, the play brings to light not only the hidden working of Rome's mixed regime but the inherent tragic tensions in the soul's spirited tendency to strive to go beyond ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Rome and the Spirit of Caesar

    Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

    de Jan H. Blits ...
    Rome and the Spirit of Caesar, providing a fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar, is a thorough examination of Shakespeare’s presentation of the final throes of republican Rome’s political decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism.As in his previous studies of Shakespeare’s plays, Blits, pursuing his distinctive approach, follows Caesar through, scene by scene, speech by speech, line by line, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World

    de Jan H. Blits ...
    Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments-from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate-possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of the ancient political world.While most books on ancient ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Athens, Arden, Jerusalem

    Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft

    de Gisela Berns, Jan H. Blits, Eva Brann, Ronna Burger, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Kate Havard, Leon R. Kass, Margaret Kirby, Pamela Kraus, Paul Ludwig0, Wilfred M. McClay1, William Mullen2, Louis Petrich3, Alan Rubenstein4, Robert Sacks5, Arlene W. Saxonhouse6, Adam Schulman7, Jeffrey A. Smith8, Paul T. Wilford9 ...
    This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul through an examination of profound literary, philosophic, and theological reflections on topics as ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

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  • Utopia

    de Thomas More, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose.More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive toChristian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

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  • Timon of Athens

    de William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare’s contemporaries, for whom “Timonist” was a slang term for an ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

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  • Preface to Shakespeare

    Enriched edition. A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespearean Criticism and Literary Analysis by an 18th-century Scholar

    de Samuel Johnson, Xavier Sutton ...
    In his seminal work, "Preface to Shakespeare," Samuel Johnson offers a profound exploration of Shakespeare's plays, melding literary criticism with a rich historical context. Johnson's eloquent prose reflects the 18th-century Enlightenment ideals, emphasizing reason and human experience while simultaneously celebrating the complexities of Shakespeare's characters and themes. He deftly navigates ... Leer más

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  • Shakspere and Montaigne

    An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works

    de Jacob Feis ...
    In "Shakspere and Montaigne," Jacob Feis meticulously explores the profound influence of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne on the works of William Shakespeare. Feis employs a comparative literary analysis, delving into the thematic parallels and stylistic similarities that manifest in Shakespeare's plays and Montaigne's essays. The book skillfully navigates through the intricate tapestry ... Leer más

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