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Kimbrough addresses myths of androgyny and locates the androgynous vision in 16th-century thought.
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The author, Robert Kimbrough, starts from a definition of androgny as full realized humanity - a state rarely attained and only ever fleetingly. Thus androgyny is an ideal goal, one of the earliest and most pervasive images of humanity, found in the creation myths of all creatures, a vision of unity and harmony extending beyond the gender-based limitations of the physical self. Shakespeare's word for this is "kind." Androgyny is the acceptance of our human kind-ness.
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- PublisherHumanities Press International Inc.,U.S.
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0391036696
- ISBN 13 9780391036697
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness: The Assay Toward Androgyny
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. (5.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [6], author's notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. xvi, 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Defining androgyny as fully realized humanity, or humankindness, Robert Kimbrough first addresses myths of androgyny and locates the androgynous vision in sixteenth-century thought. Then, ranging widely throughout the Shakespearean canon, Kimbrough discusses the androgynous stirrings of youth found in the boy-girl disguises of the comedies, including As You Like It and Twelfth Night, and the attempts of more mature protagonists to cross gender barriers in Julius Caesar, Othello, and especially Macbeth. Finally, Kimbrough explores Shakespeare's presentation of the problems of parenthood and old age in King Lear, and concludes with a discussion of The Tempest as a play of final androgynous synthesis in humankindness. Seller Inventory # 200698
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