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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452271003321

Autore

Zak William F. <1945->

Titolo

A Mirror for lovers [[electronic resource] ] : Shake-speare's Sonnets as curious perspective / / William F. Zak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland, : Lexington Books, 2013

ISBN

0-7391-7511-4

1-299-18445-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (611 p.)

Disciplina

821/.309

Soggetti

Sonnets, English - History and criticism

Love in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Ch01. The Tradition and the Individual Talents; Ch02. The Immortal Word Made Flesh to Dwell Among Us; Ch03. The Marriage of True Minds; Ch04. The Procreation Group; Ch05. The Civil War in Shake-speare's Love and Hate; Ch06. L'Ora Beatrice; Ch07. The Dark Lady; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak, seeks to identify in Shake-speare'e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato's Symposium. In an effort to trace the power of Plato's discrimination of the true nature of love, Zak makes a case for the mutually illuminating relationship among the sonnets to the fair young man and the dark lady, "A Lover's Complaint," and the mysterious dedication that until now have never received attention as an integral symbolic matrix of meaning.