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Female Disempowerment Through Sexual Interaction In A Midsummer Nights Dream By Shakespeare
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Book Synopsis Female disempowerment through sexual interaction in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by Shakespeare by : Sophia Schwarzmann
Download or read book Female disempowerment through sexual interaction in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by Shakespeare written by Sophia Schwarzmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham, course: Plays and Performances, language: English, abstract: The essay deals with the oppression or emancipation of women in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream”. The essay will have a look at three scenes within which sexual intercourse is implied. In them the threat of male dominance to females within sexual relationships both physically and socially, how marriage can be a metaphor for imbalanced power distribution, and the possibility of engaging in a heteroerotic relationship without experiencing disempowerment as a woman will be explored thoroughly.
Book Synopsis Women in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Sex, Gender, and Social Norms of Feminity in the Elizabethan Age and in Shakespeare's Comedy by : Martha Nisi
Download or read book Women in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Sex, Gender, and Social Norms of Feminity in the Elizabethan Age and in Shakespeare's Comedy written by Martha Nisi and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 0,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The aim of the present paper is to examine the role of women in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The first section investigates women in early modern England and is divided into the subsections "Sex and gender in early modern England" and "Norms of femininity." Section two explores the role of women in the sixteenth century comedy. More precisely, the emphasis here will be upon the analysis of female-female and female-male bonds of the characters in the play.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's adolescents by : Victoria Sparey
Download or read book Shakespeare's adolescents written by Victoria Sparey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge and an understanding of contemporary theatrical practices, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of ‘signs’ associated with an individual’s physical maturation. Each chapter explores the implications of different ‘signs’ of puberty, in verbal cues, facial adornments, vocal traits and body sizes, to illuminate how Shakespeare presents vibrant adolescent selves and stories. By analysing female and male puberty together in its discussion of adolescence, Shakespeare’s adolescents provides fresh insight into the age-based symmetry of early modern adolescent identities. The book uses the adolescent’s state of transformation to illuminate how the unfixed nature of adolescence was valued in early modern culture and through Shakespeare’s celebrated characters and actors.
Book Synopsis Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Dusica Marinkovic-Penney
Download or read book Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Dusica Marinkovic-Penney and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar: The History of British Comedy, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the four female characters of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is one of the early comedies of the playwright. Here we encounter four main female characters who come from three different backgrounds. While Hippolyta is about to be married to Theseus, one can say that she represents the leadership in the mortal world. Titania is another leading character who is the queen of the fairy land. Hermia and Helena represent young women who are trying to find the right partner for themselves. As in many Shakespeare’s comedies, the married couples are confronted with a certain problem that seems to endanger their marriage, while the unmarried people make choices that are not accepted or a confusing love constellation exists, for instance the “love chain” that can be found in this play, where Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander. The play can be divided into three parts: at the beginning we face a world of Athens, where life is organized by law; the middle part of the play takes place in the magical wood where the fairies control the irrational events and cause a lot of discord, and finally a return to the ‘normal’ world occurs where all the mismatched couples can resolve their troubles and a triple wedding takes place which is the ultimate happy end for a comedy of Shakespeare’s times. All four female characters will be analyzed in all three stages of the play: before the magic intervention of the fairy king, during the confusion caused by him and after the initial conditions are restored. Hippolyta remains the only character who is not manipulated by the love potion. The female characters will be analyzed according to their behavior, their image of themselves and the relationship to the men. Each character will be introduced and analyzed in a separate chapter. The goal is to find parallels and contrasts between these characters which will be presented in the conclusion of this paper.
Book Synopsis A Midsummer Night's Dream by : Dorothea Kehler
Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream written by Dorothea Kehler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Book Synopsis Individual and State in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Silja Rübsamen
Download or read book Individual and State in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Silja Rübsamen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”.
Book Synopsis A Midsummer Night's Dream by : James L. Calderwood
Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream written by James L. Calderwood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, James Calderwood calls on psychoanalysis, feminism, anthropology and metadrama, to demonstrate the profound complexity of the play. He shows how Shakespeare explores the nature of human desire by exploiting the seriousness of high (and low) comedy.
Book Synopsis Happy Endings in Shakespeare’s Comedies from a Feminist Point of View by : Leanne Harper
Download or read book Happy Endings in Shakespeare’s Comedies from a Feminist Point of View written by Leanne Harper and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B, King`s College London, language: English, abstract: This essay explores the controversial endings of the following plays: The Taming of the Shrew A midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice. Paying particular attention to the language in the last scenes and Shakespeare's enigmatic representation of the female characters with regards to gender roles.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by : Emma Smith
Download or read book The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
Book Synopsis A Comparison of Theseus in Greek mythology and "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by :
Download or read book A Comparison of Theseus in Greek mythology and "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,5, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Shakespeare's Comedies , language: English, abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich von Theseus in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' und in der griechischen Mythologie.
Book Synopsis The Shakespearean Marriage by : Lisa Hopkins
Download or read book The Shakespearean Marriage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of personal happiness.
Download or read book My Tiny Life written by Julian Dibbell and published by Julian Dibbell. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novelistic rendering of a true account tells of a celebrated rape case which took place in an electronic "salon", where Internet junkies have created their own interactive fantasy realm.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War by : Emma Smith
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.
Book Synopsis Entertaining the Idea by : Lowell Gallagher
Download or read book Entertaining the Idea written by Lowell Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s plays supply readers, listeners, viewers, and performers with equipment for living. In plays ranging from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to King Lear and The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare invites readers and audiences to be more responsive to the texture and meaning of daily encounters, whether in the intimacies of love, the demands of social and political life, or moments of ethical decision. Entertaining the Idea features established and emerging scholars, addressing key words such as role play, acknowledgment, judgment, and entertainment as well as curse and care. The volume also includes longer essays on Shakespeare, Kant, Husserl, and Hegel as well as an afterword by theatre critic Charles McNulty on the philosophy and performance history of King Lear.
Book Synopsis Cultivating Music in America by : Ralph P. Locke
Download or read book Cultivating Music in America written by Ralph P. Locke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America
Book Synopsis The Tempest by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance by : Richard Schoch
Download or read book A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance written by Richard Schoch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.
