Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 191 g
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3849-1
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out of the same classical Christian heritage. Fergusson explores analogous themes from several Shakespearean plays and parts of Dante’s <i>Divine Comedy</i>. These themes are romantic love and faith in it; treachery and its recognition; a commonsense view of secular government and a belief in the necessity of right rule for right government; and poetry as evidence of things not seen and its relation to religious belief.
