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A Seventeenth-Century Air History In Conversation With Antony And Cleopatra, Laura S. Deluca
A Seventeenth-Century Air History In Conversation With Antony And Cleopatra, Laura S. Deluca
Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal
This article works to unpack the recurrences of air-related language utilized in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Throughout this play, the notions of breath, wind, air, and vapor are consistently referenced, demonstrating the way in which atmospheric intangibility was a key point of exploration for contemporary scientists and philosophers. Through this analysis, it is clear that Shakespeare employs breath in three ways: the breath of (public) life, a lack of breath, and, most importantly, breath as a symbol of power and autonomy, which at times overlaps with the breath of life in ways that demonstrate contemporary conceptualizations of living beings. The …
Review Essay: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography Of Modern Criticism And Scholarship, De Lamar Jensen
Review Essay: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography Of Modern Criticism And Scholarship, De Lamar Jensen
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Silvia Ruffo Fiore, Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship, Greenwood Press, 1990, 824 pp., $89.50.