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On Reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Context of Plato’s ‘Symposium’: Semantics of the Characters and the Author’s Self. Part 2
- Authors: Hazanova O.E.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow Pedagogical State University
- Issue: No 5(899) (2025)
- Pages: 104-110
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-2197/article/view/297134
- ID: 297134
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Abstract
The article analyzes the semantics of the image of the lyrical hero in Shakespeare’s sonnets with reference to the concepts of the true and false Eros and hierarchy of beauty in Plato’s dialogue “Symposium”. The lyrical hero is interpreted by means of the masks that he ‘creates’ for his beloved ones – ‘the divine beautiful’, ‘the earthly realization of the divine beautiful’ and ‘Christian androgyny’ – while searching for the Absolute like it occurs in Plato’s dialogue. We also consider Shakespeare’s ‘self’ in the sonnets which embraces modal semantics of the philosophical constructivism and thus suggests a certain affinity to Plato’s ‘self’ as reflected in “Symposium.
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Olga Eduardovna Hazanova
Moscow Pedagogical State University
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Email: olga_edwards@inbox.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Department of contrastive linguistics, Institute of foreign languages,
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