Title: Shakespeare's defense of poetry : A midsummer night's dream and The tempest /
Authors: Rhoads, Diana Akers, 1944-
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Political and social views.; Shakespeare, William, Aesthetics.; Shakespeare, William,; Shakespeare, William,; Politics and literature; Aesthetics, Modern; Politics and literature Great Britain.
Contents: The poet's relation to civil society -- A Midsummer Night's Dream : politics versus poetry -- A Midsummer Night's Dream : Shakespeare's dramatic solution to the problems poetry poses for politics -- A Midsummer Night's Dream : Shakespeare's defense of poetry -- The Tempest : the poet as politician and political philosopher -- The Tempest : the limitations of poetry, politics and philosophy -- The Tempest : Shakespeare's defense of poetry -- Shakespeare's revels : The Tempest's development of A Midsummer Night's Dream and further thoughts on the poet in civil society -- The Renaissance view of the daemon -- Daemonic characteristics of Ariel