{"product_id":"9781621481416","title":"More Than a Play of Fancy","description":"The undisputed virtuosity of William Shakespeare's theatrical works-and their perennial relationship to the experience of being human-assures their continued importance in the cultural life of the twenty-first century.\u003cp\u003eBut Shakespeare is a subject of interest not only in the theater; his life and work remain among the foremost themes of literary and historical scholarship. However, virtually every scholarly commentary on Shakespeare's dramas remains, on a deeper level, unsatisfying. This is because the profound depths of these plays are not, in fact, accessible to a strictly intellectual approach. Shakespeare's \"realism\" relates just as much to the world we inhabit in our dreams as it does to our everyday consciousness. Taken as a whole, Shakespeare's dramas are characterized by the interplay of a brightly colored, dynamic \"dream\" world and a \"real\" world of authentic, even archetypal, psychological insight. This dual-nature of Shakespeare's plays serves as the author's point of departure in this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing seven of his most loved and performed plays as examples, Willem Frederik Veltman uncovers the spiritual reality that hides-in full view, like an open secret-in Shakespeare's world of images. Included are studies of The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; Hamlet; As You Like It; The Winter's Tale; and The Tempest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SteinerBooks, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055272149232,"sku":"9781621481416","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621481416_p0.jpg?v=1763859573","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621481416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}