Structure and Chaos: Binary Pairs in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download Structure and Chaos: Binary Pairs in Shakespeare's

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638507424
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Structure and Chaos: Binary Pairs in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Silja Rübsamen

Download or read book Structure and Chaos: Binary Pairs in 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 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A- (= 1,3), University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), course: English 891 Honors: Shakespeare on Stage, Page and Film, language: English, abstract: Peter G. Philias assumes that Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that lives off seemingly incompatible contradictions: 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. Bipolar oppositions that can immediately be recognized are civilization and nature, which are juxtaposed in the confrontation of the court of Athens and the forest. In addition, man and woman are working against each other in the unequal couples of Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania, and arch-conservative Egeus and his daughter Hermia. Concentrating on the opposition between town - the court of Athens - and wilderness - the forest - this essay is dedicated to an examination of the underlying force that drives the development of the plot: opposition. Furthermore, the essay will examine two filmic versions ofA Midsummer Night’s Dreamfrom different times, and compare their representation of the opposing forces. Max Reinhardt’s (1935) and Michael Hoffmann’s (1999)A Midsummer Night’s Dreamhave been chosen as the two different movie versions of the play that can stand as representatives for different time periods and different approaches towards Shakespeare on film. The comparative analysis of the films will be based on the results of the play’s analysis, which will deal with the primary opposition established in the play - the opposition between the court of Athens, the realm of law and order, and the forest, the realm of dreams and chaos - and its reflection in the relationship between man and woman, which also exhibits strong traits of a polarized, oppositional relationship. The basic assumption on which the paper is based is that the 1935 movie version of the play subverts the play’s concepts of the orderly town and the chaotic wilderness. In the film, the court of Athens is in a state of disorderly flux - from carnival to a brief display of authority and back to carnival - whereas, paradoxically, the wilderness is governed by a sense of order. The characterization of Oberon as a haughty king who maintains order does not permit a portrait of the woods as ultimately unruly and chaotic.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning

Download A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434974553
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning by :

Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos

Download Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566056
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos by : T. McAlindon

Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos written by T. McAlindon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.

The Concept of Love in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download The Concept of Love in Shakespeare's

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668242186
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Concept of Love in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Clarissa Benning

Download or read book The Concept of Love in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Clarissa Benning and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: William Shakespeare is one of the most important English authors, his plays are well known today although he lived in the 16th century. Especially his love dramas enjoy great popularity. This paper deals with his comedy „A Midsummer Night's Dream“. Nearly everybody knows the famous sentence Lysander says to Hermia: „The course of true love never did run smooth“ (MND I.i.134). Love is the main theme in this play and this sentence mirrors the love between the four Athenian lovers very well. The flower 'love-in-idleness' screws up the whole love constellation as well as Egeus, Hermia's father, who does not allow his daughter to marry the man she loves. Throughout the play love is presented with a huge range of metaphors and it acquires new shapes. It is notable that those metaphors who describe the love in the play are metaphors of nature. The moon, the image of inconstancy is often used to show the inconstancy of love between the four Athenian lovers caused by the magic flower. Furthermore, love is linked to the eyes, but it is misleading, however, to conclude that there is a simple association between love and beauty, just because the eyes are linked to love. Besides Shakespeare shows the power of love between the protagonists. Love is not only a feeling, it changes the perception.

Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640177517
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


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 with total page 30 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, 12 entries in the bibliography, 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 behav

The Fairy Mythology in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download The Fairy Mythology in William Shakespeare's

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638923940
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Fairy Mythology in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Melitta Töller

Download or read book The Fairy Mythology in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Melitta Töller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften), course: Shakespeare: The Comedies, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy and one of his most popular plays. It is very lyrical and poetic, filled with magical beings from mythological worlds and the power of true love. Shakespeare's age was the great time of fairy poetry in English literature, but no other work has influenced our visions of fairies as much as "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Till today the idea of fairies, as we have them in our mind, is shaped by Shakespeare's delighting comedy. The play can be interpreted as "a fantasia on love", because love, it's follies, absurdities, conflicts and even dangers draw a red line through the play: from the quarrel between the fairy king and queen, to the heroic love of Theseus for his war-conquered Amazon queen, to the love-chase of Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius, and to the enchanted experiences of Bot-tom. In nearly all of these love affairs the fairies have their (sometimes helping) hand engaged and they are thus very important agents in the main- and in the sub-plots. In this paper I will first take a survey of the historic belief in fairies in Shakespearian England, and then look at Shakespeare's literary sources for the most important and most famous fairies who appear in this play, namely Oberon, Titania and Puck. Then I will show some parallels between the fairy queen Titania and Queen Elizabeth I, and afterwards I will analyze the quarrel between Oberon, king of fairies, and his wife. Finally I will give a comprehensive overview of the various ways of performing the play, both in theatre and in film.

Love Concepts in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download Love Concepts in William Shakespeare's

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656368503
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Love Concepts in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Sema Kara

Download or read book Love Concepts in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Sema Kara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Würzburg (Lehrstuhl für Englische Literatur - und Kulturwissenschaft ), course: HS: Shakespeare's Comedies, language: English, abstract: “The course of true love never did run smooth” – this statement, made by the male protagonist Lysander in I,1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is arguably one of the most well-known lines from the play. In a nutshell, it represents its: the trials and tribulations of love; the obstacles young love has to overcome, the intrinsic complexities of established love, and the victory of true love in the end. This paper aims to take a look at the way, how different stages of love and love concepts are represented in AMD. As Shakespeare is said to have written this particular early play between 1594 - 1596 , a closer look will be taken at the conventions of love poetry in the literature of the Elizabethan age. The influence of the Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch’s love poetry concept on Elizabethan love poetry conventions will be of special interest at this point. Further on, Shakespeare’s very own love concept in his romantic comedies will be compared and contrasted to the love poetry of his age. The late 16th century and early 17th century, from the 1690ies and particularly with the onset of the reign of King James I, brought about a change in the perception and creation of conventional Elizabethan love poetry: from the commonplace Petrarchan conceits to a more individual, realistic yet Puritan depiction of the praised woman . With AMD being conceived in this particular time frame, possible reflections of this literary change of mind in the discussed play will be outlined in the analysis of this play. Scholars argue, that AMD originally might have been written by Shakespeare for a noble wedding celebration , because of its lenght, the marriages at the end of the play and the different aspects of married life the play offers. The aspect of marriage and marital conventions in the Elizabethan age will be another point of analysis in this paper, determining whether Shakespeare stayed true or subverted common assumptions of married life at his age. The final analysis will try to apply the aforementioned theoretical points to AMD and take a look at how marriage, love, and literary love concepts are represented by the respective couples in the play.

A Comparison of Theseus in Greek mythology and "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"

Download A Comparison of Theseus in Greek mythology and

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640935519
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


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.

Complexity

Download Complexity PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150405914X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Complexity by : M. Mitchell Waldrop

Download or read book Complexity written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

Download The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195233
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


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.

The play within the play: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Download The play within the play: Ovid's

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638770583
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The play within the play: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by : Mandy Busse

Download or read book The play within the play: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Mandy Busse and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: “[By Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Elizabethans could](...) dig beneath its layers of fiction in an effort to recover the most precious secrets of the ancient world, whether moral, philosophical, historical, or scientific.” It is beyond all doubt, that the great poetry of Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) had a strong influence on William Shakespeare’s work. Understandably enough, as Ovid’s work is a classical masterpiece of Latin literature. It fascinates with its formal perfection, urban humour and Ovid’s creative fantasy. His outstanding opus is of course the Metamorphoses, the magnificent epic poem containing about 250 transformation legends of Greek and Roman mythology. Ovid’s interests in myths show also the heroides, which include fictitious love letters. Love – this is undoubtedly a central theme in Ovid’s literature. His writings Amores, Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris display that. Although Ovid’s literature was banished from public libraries by emperor Augustus after the poet’s death, his posthumous fame could not be prevented – fortunately. Ovid’s work had a great influence on medieval literature and during renaissance his mythological stories had been example for many novellas . The role of Ovid’s greatest opus, the Metamorphoses in Shakespeare’s work, especially in his comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is going to be discussed in this paper. At first the focus lies on Ovidian literature in Elizabethan times. Then, the parody of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be analysed. A special kind of metamorphosis – the one of Bottom brings up the third main emphasis. By the way – what is a metamorphosis? It is said to be a process in which somebody or something changes completely into something different – for example a caterpillar that becomes a beautiful butterfly...

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898609
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

William Shakespeare

Download William Shakespeare PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis William Shakespeare by : Victor Hugo

Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance

Download Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107041651
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance by : Susan Wiseman

Download or read book Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance written by Susan Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.

Critical Theory Today

Download Critical Theory Today PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136615563
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Critical Theory Today by : Lois Tyson

Download or read book Critical Theory Today written by Lois Tyson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination

Download Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316381005
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination by : Stuart Sillars

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination written by Stuart Sillars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This book explores this relationship, showing how key works develop visual compositions as elements of dramatic movement, construction of ideas, and reflections on the artifice of theatre and language. The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored in detail, offering new insights into their forms, themes, and place in European traditions. The use of emblems is examined in Titus Andronicus and As You Like It; studies of Venus and Adonis, some sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece reveal different but related visual aspects; a later chapter suggests how the new relation between seeing and soliloquy in The Rape of Lucrece is developed in other plays. Extensively illustrated, the book explores Shakespeare's assimilation and exploration of visual traditions in structure, theme and idea throughout the canon.

A Study of Shakespeare

Download A Study of Shakespeare PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis A Study of Shakespeare by : Algernon Charles Swinburne

Download or read book A Study of Shakespeare written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: