Trope and Allegory

Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare

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Francis Fergusson

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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.

Author Biography:

Francis Fergusson was the University Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books including "The Human Image in Dramatic Literature" and "Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet."

Release date Australia

May 30th, 2011

Author

Francis Fergusson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

176

Dimensions

140x216x10

ISBN-13

9780820338491

Product ID

10910106

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