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A Mirror for Lovers
Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective
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2013
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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. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure, re-animate, and enrich itself through time: Plato’s discrimination of the true nature of love in The Symposium. Born anew in its medieval reincarnations (The Romance of the Rose, The Vita Nuova, and The Canzoniere of Petrarch), the tradition begun in Plato’s Symposium was then resuscitated in the Elizabethan sonnet sequence revival, most notably in Shake-speare’s Sonnets. With extended examination of all the texts in the Q manuscript, A Mirror for Lovers 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.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7510-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7511-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
596
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Ch01. The Tradition and the Individual Talents No access Pages 1 - 92
Ch02. The Immortal Word Made Flesh to Dwell Among Us No access Pages 93 - 168
Ch03. The Marriage of True Minds No access Pages 169 - 252
Ch04. The Procreation Group No access Pages 253 - 280
Ch05. The Civil War in Shake-speare’s Love and Hate No access Pages 281 - 378
