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Author : M. Ismail Wali, Ph.d.
Publisher : RoseDog Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1434984621
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434974556
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198129288
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
Author : Silja Rübsamen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638507400
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), course: English 732 - Shakespeare, language: English, abstract: „A Midsummer Night ́s Dream and The Tempest, a play it prefigures in important ways, share the distinction of illustrating better than any other plays Shakespeare ́s device of juxtaposing extremes for the purpose of indicating a golden mean.“ Peter G. Philias remarks that Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that lives of seemingly incompatible contradictions: civilization and nature are juxtaposed in the confrontation of the court of Athens and the woods; man and woman are working against each other in the unequal parts of Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania, and arch-conservative Egeus and his daughter Hermia. It seems consensual to state that – on the deep structure level – the contradiction between “doting”, the fixation of a lover on a partner who does not return the affections, and “cool reason” forms the common ground of these and several other antagonisms. But although I consent to this view, I would also like to deny the reduction of this play to a mere love story – a view expressed by Philias, who claims that had been Shakespeare’s intention „to comopse a play presenting sudden conflict between lovers as well as antithetical attitudes toward love.“ I am convinced that the contents of A Midsummer Night’s Dream go far beyond the topics of family conflict or interpersonal relationship. The basic conflict between reason and emotion can only become the departing point of the story because it triggers an underlying conflict between individual and society, respectively between individual and state. „Every Shakespearean character lives within a political regime governed laws and shaped by distinctive institutions. How a character lives acts and how he perceives his deeds is affected, sometimes crucially affected, by his participation in the corporate life of a city or realm.“ The aim of this paper is to demonstrate where the conflict lies between the individual and the state, respectively its institutions and the officials who represent them, and how it is solved so that the final scenes can indeed be regarded as the establishment of an ideal state of affairs – ideal in the sense of what Philias calls the “golden means”.
Author : Judith M. Kennedy,Richard F. Kennedy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847141750
This study traces the response to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Shakespeare's day to the present, including critics from Britain, Europe and America.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : English drama
ISBN : UIUC:30112112090383
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671531409
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For the Oxford Shakespeare edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks atdreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798657307979
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.written around 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a fourth edition of the author's manuscript, in which there are some minor inconsistencies. The version published in the First Folio of 1623 was taken from a second fourth edition, with some reference to a textbook. One of the "big" or "in-between" comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with its examination of love and its whims in several layers, has long been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.Theseus, Duke of Athens, has conquered Hippolyta, the Amazon queen, and is about to marry her. Meanwhile, two lovers, Hermia and Lisandro, seek refuge in the forest near Athens when Hermia's father demands that she marry. Demetrius Hoping to win Demetrios favor,
Author : Anonym
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640773657
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultät), course: Shakespearean Comedy, language: English, abstract: The "dream" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" implies a world of imagination, illusion and unconsciousness. In addition, the tradition and the popular beliefs of the midsummer festivals describe a time of unleashed natural forces (BOOCK, 1981: 70). The audience of the play indeed witnesses magical incidents in the fairies' forest, where the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, rule over the natural processes. Human beings seem to behave irrationally under the spell of these fairies and in the surrounding of this magic forest (SHAKESPEARE, 1980: II - IV). However, in contrast, the city of Athens is dominated by the rational Theseus, duke of Athens, who only believes in what cool reason is able to produce and to understand (SHAKESPEARE, 1980: V, i, 2 - 22). The contrast of imagination and reason represents one of the major oppositional pairs of themes of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (KERRIGAN, 1998: 20ff). It becomes indirectly clear through the opposing worlds of forest and city and the ongoing actions in these two places. Furthermore, in the last scene of the play, the audience experiences directly a controversy between Theseus and his wife, Hippolyta, concerning the truth of the story about the incidents in the forest happened to the young Athenians Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius. Consequently, it is also a controversy about the value of imagination and reason (SHAKESPEARE, 1980: V, i, 1 - 27). Moreover, questions of imagination are brought up on another level. The play within the play of "Pyramus and Thisbe", which is rehearsed by craftsmen throughout the story and performed at the wedding ceremony in the last scene, offers an increase of imaginative perspectives. Its content not only mirrors the main plot, but it also emphasises the
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : UOM:39015082231526
Mix-ups and mishaps occur when Oberon, the King of the Fairies, doses his sleeping wife with a magical potion that causes her to fall in love with the first living thing she sees upon awakening.
Author : Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00177867
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : MINN:31951000926116P
An abridged version of Shakespeare's original text with a character as an "announcer" who summarizes deleted passages. Includes some staging directions.
Author : Elisabeth Kuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668532249
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, language: English, abstract: This paper is about the symbol 'sleep' in Shakespeare's plays "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Macbeth." The author will discuss the definition and the role of sleep, in the two already mentioned works, in chapter 2 and 3 by analysing the symbol in detail, by giving examples and quoting relevant passages from the text. As "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy and "Macbeth" a tragedy, these terms also have to be explained. Therefore, 'sleep' further has to be analysed by taking the aspects of a comedy and tragedy into consideration. The next chapter is dedicated to the comparison of the sleep-symbol between "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Macbeth." To sum it up, the main focus of this paper is to emphasize the importance of the sleep-symbol and its consequences on the plot and outcome of the two plays (chapter 5).
Author : William Shakespeare,Lindsay Price
Publisher : Theatrefolk
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781894870276
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6G17
