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서명/저자사항 | Timon of Athens [electronic resource] : a tragedie : like madness is the glory of this life/ William Shakespeare. |
개인저자 | Shakespeare, William,1564-1616. |
발행사항 | [London]: Scribe Publishing, [2016]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
총서사항 | The Pelican Shakespeare |
ISBN | 1785435779 9781785435775 |
발행자번호 | MWT11636006 |
요약 | The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare's contemporaries, for whom "Timonist" was a slang term for an unsociable man. Shakespeare's play includes the wealthy, magnificent, and extravagantly generous figure of Timon before his transformation. Timon expects that, having received as gifts all that he owned, his friends will be equally generous to him. Once his creditors clamor for repayment, Timon finds that his idealization of friendship is an illusion. He repudiates his friends, abandons Athens, and retreats to the woods. Yet his misanthropy arises from the destruction of an admirable illusion, from which his subsequent hatred can never be entirely disentangled. |
주제명(개인명) | Timon, -- of Athens,active 5th century B.C. -- Drama. Timon, -- of Athens,active 5th century B.C. -- fast -- |
주제명(지명) | Athens (Greece) --Drama. Greece --Athens. --fast |
일반주제명 | DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
언어 | 영어 |
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