A Midsummer Night's Dream
$27.37
- Paperback
175 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2024
Summary
“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 love of the beautiful and the triumph of learning and art, along with the rise …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781587315329 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1587315327 |
| Author: | Jan H. Blits, Shakespeare William |
| Publisher: | St Augustine's Press |
| Imprint: | St Augustine's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 175 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Audience Age: | 13-17 |
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Jan H. Blits
Jan H. Blits is Emeritus Professor in University Honors Faculty at the University of Delaware. He received his B.A. from St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has served as Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy, has won the University of Delaware’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and was the 2011 winner of the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award.
Professor Blits is the author of seven books, including, most recently, New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World. His articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Interpretation, Apeiron, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, The Public Interest, Educational Theory, and other journals.
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