- Title
- Will and Wille Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato's Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Ronald Gray: essays and reviews
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455944
- Identifier
- vital:75469
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC128421
- Description
- Best known as the author of Kafka's Castle (1956) and a number of highly regarded works on Goethe and Brecht, Ronald Gray turns his attention to Shakespeare in a rich and succinct little book, developed from his earlier article "Will in the Universe: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Plato's Symposium, Alchemy and Renaissance neo-Platonism", which appeared in Shakespeare Survey 59 (2006). Works produced by senior intellects - Gray retired from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1982 - can sometimes spin sugar floss at unnecessary length, or else fling themselves recklessly at momentous questions without tact or scholarly measure. (Helen Gardner's unfortunate In Defence of the Imagination, 1982, would be an apposite illustration of the latter tendency.) Shakespeare on Love avoids both dangers, holding to its challenging thesis with admirable economy.
- Format
- 2 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa
- Relation
- Wright, L., 2013. Will and Wille Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato's Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Ronald Gray : essays and reviews. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 24(1), pp.75-77
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 24 number 1 75 77 2013 2071-7504
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Shakespeare in Southern Africa Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sisa/about)
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