| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 1130 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Controversies and coincidences -- The young man and the mistress -- The Sonnets and the plays -- The Sonnets and Antony and Cleopatra -- A Lover's Complaint -- The Muse -- Varied perceptions of philosophies of opposites -- Epilogue: Dante and Shakespeare. |
| Summary |
"Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge on German Literature and Philosophy for 33 years, and now expands his article, 'Will in the Universe, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Plato's Symposium, Alchemy and Renaissance Neo-Platonism', published in 'Shakespeare Survey 59', Cambridge University Press 2006. This developed from his 'Goethe the Alchemist, A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works', 1952, greeted on published as 'a major contribution to Goethe Studies'. Diotima's vision of universal love in The Symposium is echoed not only in Castiglione's "The Courtier" but in alchemy, in its symbolical sense; these together with Christian ideas combined in Shakespeare's imagination, strongly influencing the Sonnets. Where possible, Shakespeare inserted themes of the Sonnets in the plays. The result is a paradoxical combination of mysticism, sometimes erotic, in the Sonnets, with real situations and real lovers in both Sonnets and plays. The supreme realisation of the Dark Lady is Cleopatra, but the Lady also has mythic dimensions."--Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Plato. Symposium.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Symposium (Plato) (OCoLC)fst01357520
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Shakespeare, William. (DE-588c)4054714-0
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Symposium. (DE-588c)4135938-0
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Sonnets, English -- History and criticism.
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Love in literature.
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Alchemy in literature.
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Christianity in literature.
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Neoplatonism in literature.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Alchemy in literature. (OCoLC)fst00804259
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Christianity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00859755
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Love in literature. (OCoLC)fst01002808
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Neoplatonism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01035887
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Sonnets, English. (OCoLC)fst01126634
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Liefde.
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Sonnetten.
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Toneelstukken.
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Neoplatonisme.
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Liebe (Motiv) (DE-588c)4123655-5
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Rezeption. (DE-588c)4049716-1
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gray, Ronald D. Shakespeare on love. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011 1443827118 (OCoLC)707460454 |
| ISBN |
9781443828000 (electronic bk.) |
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1443828009 (electronic bk.) |
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