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Includes bibliography.
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Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
2017
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2017
Description
Many scholars who study Plato and Shakespeare together focus only on erotic
love between lovers or nonsexual love between others. A closer study of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream shows that Shakespeare uses Plato’s concepts of the soul in addition to the
Forms, the guide, as well as staging the varieties of love that can exist between two
individuals and the dangers of loving the physical more than the mind. Shakespeare takes
these ideas embedded in Symposium and Phaedrus and not only crafts his play
accordingly, but also creates his own versions through his unique interpretations. These
alterations appear reflected in the play’s sequence of events, the characters’ actions, and
the merging of the faerie and human realms.
love between lovers or nonsexual love between others. A closer study of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream shows that Shakespeare uses Plato’s concepts of the soul in addition to the
Forms, the guide, as well as staging the varieties of love that can exist between two
individuals and the dangers of loving the physical more than the mind. Shakespeare takes
these ideas embedded in Symposium and Phaedrus and not only crafts his play
accordingly, but also creates his own versions through his unique interpretations. These
alterations appear reflected in the play’s sequence of events, the characters’ actions, and
the merging of the faerie and human realms.
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98 p.
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FA00005937
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Includes bibliography.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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2017
Date Created Backup
2017
Date Text
2017
Date Created (EDTF)
2017
Date Issued (EDTF)
2017
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FAU
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FA00005937
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of English
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Urmi, Tahmina Begum
author
Graduate College
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Plato and Shakespeare: The Influence of Phaedrus and Symposium on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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2017
2017
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Title
Plato and Shakespeare: The Influence of Phaedrus and Symposium on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Plato and Shakespeare: The Influence of Phaedrus and Symposium on A Midsummer Night’s Dream