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Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare

Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0820338494
ISBN13: 9780820338491
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: May 1 2011
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 Divine Comedy. 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.

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