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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Line, Jill. Shakespeare and the fire of love. London : Shepheard-Walwyn, 2004 (OCoLC)607420626 |
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| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; Marsilio Ficino; William Shakespeare |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jill Line |
| ISBN: | 0856832251 9780856832253 0856832308 9780856832307 |
| OCLC Number: | 56082722 |
| Description: | xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Jill Line. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Once in a while in Shakespeare scholarship a book of real insight turns up, and Shakespeare and the Fire of Love is such a book. ...Perhaps most telling of all we glimpse the inner coherence of Shakespeare, whose eye is ever fixed on the eternal laws which lie hidden beneath the appearance of the world and the aspirations of the human soul.' Temenos Review 2006 Jill Line has brought to clear light the underlying Platonic symbolism of the plays as exemplified by Ficino's Platonic Academy in Florence. I know of no other study that offers such an illuminating path into the deeper poetic sense of Shakespeare.' -- Dr. Joseph Milne, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Kent Jill Line's work is part of a scholarship that has inspired my work with Shakespeare. (She) is unafraid to look at the Renaissance and Classical roots of Shakespeare's great wisdom and thereby illumine his works.' -- Mark Rylance, Actor and Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 1996-2006 Read more...
