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Timon of Athens

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"The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare's contemporaries, for whom "Timonist" was a slang term for an unsociable man. Shakespeare's play includes the wealthy, magnificent, and extravagantly generous figure of Timon before his transformation. Timon expects that, having received as gifts all that he owned, his friends will be equally generous to him. Once his creditors clamor for repayment, Timon finds that his idealization of friendship is an illusion. He repudiates his friends, abandons Athens, and retreats to the woods. Yet his misanthropy arises from the destruction of an admirable illusion, from which his subsequent hatred can never be entirely disentangled."--Provided by publisher.

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William Shakespeare, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine

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Authors William Shakespeare
Assisted by Barbara A Mowat (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Werstine Paul (Editor)
Publisher Simon & Schuster N.Y.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.2020
 
EAN 9781982164942
ISBN 978-1-982164-94-2
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 140 mm x 213 mm x 18 mm
Weight 352 g
Series Folger Shakespeare Library
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: literary and general

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