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15 produkter
Deadly Thought
Hamlet and the Human Soul
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2001
899 kr
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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 …
Soul of Athens
Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2003
704 kr
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The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' studies Shakespeare's portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard's most memorable comedies. Through a painstakingly close reading of the play, author Jan H. Blits shows how Shakespeare's portrayal of …
Spirit, Soul, and City
Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2006
688 kr
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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 …
New Heaven, New Earth
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Av Jan H. Blits
Inbunden, 2009
1628 kr
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Patterned after his previous books on Shakespeare's plays, Jan H. Blits's New Heaven, New Earth is a scene-by-scene, line-by-line philosophical study of Antony and Cleopatra. Combining close attention to detail with interpretive breadth, Blits approaches Shakespeare as a first-rank thinker who, …
New Heaven, New Earth
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2010
818 kr
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Patterned after his previous books on Shakespeare's plays, Jan H. Blits's New Heaven, New Earth is a scene-by-scene, line-by-line philosophical study of Antony and Cleopatra. Combining close attention to detail with interpretive breadth, Blits approaches Shakespeare as a first-rank thinker who, …
Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World
Av Jan H. Blits
Inbunden, 2010
1345 kr
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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 …
End of the Ancient Republic
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 1993
688 kr
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While recent criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic's enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime's leading defenders, …
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Av Jan H. Blits
Inbunden, 2015
1547 kr
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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 …
Rome and the Spirit of Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2018
704 kr
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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 …
Heart of Rome
Ancient Rome's Political Culture
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2015
711 kr
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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 …
Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Av William Shakespeare, Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2018
236 kr
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Jan Blits' edition represents something new among editions of Julius Caesar . In addition to textual glosses and explanatory notes focused on the rhetorical, historical, and political contexts of the speeches, it includes a wide array of quotations and citations from writers of classical antiquity …
Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Av William Shakespeare, Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2019
267 kr
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" This edition of Antony and Cleopatra gives contemporary readers access to Shakespeare’s meaning as no other edition does . While other editors may provide basic information about the historical setting of the play, Jan Blits makes palpable the shape and feel of the world in which the action …
Hamlet
Av Shakespeare William, Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2026
283 kr
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This edition is the first that treats Hamlet as the work of a philosophical poet concerned with knowing the nature of the world, particularly the human world. Where conventional editions lift the play out of its specific setting and analyze it in the light of the social, cultural, and political …
Midsummer Night's Dream
Av Shakespeare William, Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 2024
185 kr
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"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 …
Insufficiency of Virtue
Macbeth and the Natural Order
Av Jan H. Blits
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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The first scene-by-scene philosophical study of any Shakespeare play, this book demonstrates why Shakespeare's poetic writings still arouse and sustain serious inquiry and reflection. Using a combination of philosophical rigor, political insight, and textual thoroughness, Jan H. Blits delineates …
