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  title info:
    title: Fraught decisions in Plato and Shakespeare
  name:
    name part: Rothleder, Dianne
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato's Republic, the unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses catastrophically badly. He finds himself fated to eat his own children. Despite being warned to blame only himself, he wails and blames anything and everything else in his conviction that his fate is undeserved. Though he should not be shocked because he has made this choice himself, he is incredulous because he has completely misunderstood the nature of his choice. Starting with Plato's myth, this book looks at the errors this soul has made and considers these errors through both the Republic and a series of paired Shakespeare plays. Reading the Republic along with Othello and The Comedy of Errors, the first section focuses on the misreading of comedy and tragedy in the life of the individual. Returning to the Republic and using The Merchant of Venice and Pericles, Part II focuses on the broadened context of the misuse of political and economic forces; returning again to the Republic and reading Timon of Athens and Measure for Measure, Part III focuses on the broadest context, the misunderstanding of the inseparability of birth and infinite debt. The hope of the text, and the hope of human life, is to help us avoid choosing lives that devour what we most love.
  note: Dianne Rothleder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    topic: Decision making in literature
  classification: PR3069.C45 R68 2021
  classification: 822.33
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophical projections
  identifier: 9781786616272
  identifier: 1786616270
  identifier: 9781786616289
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 201204
    record change date: 20210728155035.0
    record identifier: in00004429586