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

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

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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...

A Midsummer-night's Dream

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Midsummer-night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Ovid

Author : A. B. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521030315
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Ovid written by A. B. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of Shakespeare's use of Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphoses.

William Shakespeare × Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781644230442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare × Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds. Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s celebrated romantic comedy intertwines multiple narratives under the influence of transformation and witchcraft. The play is often staged with actors wearing animal masks, an aspect which appeals particularly to Dzama, whose work is characterized by the fusion of human and animal, fantasy and reality. The second title in David Zwirner Books’s Seeing Shakespeare series revisits the ultimate fairy tale through the eyes of a contemporary artist who feels a special affinity for its imagery.

Shakespeare's Ovid

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Ovid written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Author : Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110174618
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture written by Heinrich F. Plett and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main description: The volume presents a cultural history of renaissance rhetoric with special emphasis on literary theory with its aspects of imagination (inventio), generictheory (dispositio), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria), representation (actio) (with Shakespeare's works as illustrations). Special attention is given to the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music and the rhetorical ideology of culture.

Pyramus and Thisbe;

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016614153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Pyramus and Thisbe; written by William Shakespeare and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author : Nicolas Tredell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113707583X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream written by Nicolas Tredell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.

Metamorphosis in Shakespeare's Plays

Author : Elizabeth Truax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis in Shakespeare's Plays written by Elizabeth Truax and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of metamorphosis characterize Shakespeare's drama on every level. Once the image is established by simile, metaphor, or direct allusion, it is then transformed into the stuff of theatre. The images are charged with tension, excitement, and sometimes humour. The protagonists assume the posture of the pagan gods, heroes and others, depicted in literature and the visual arts and attempt to play roles for which they are often ill-suited or unprepared. After trial and learning they undergo genuine transformations as a result of actions for which they are responsible, and learn valuable lessons. This is an approach to Shakespeare's use of metamorphosis, using The Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, A Winter's Tale, and others to demonstrate transformations on several levels.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434226050
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about meddling fairies who create unintended love triangles among a group of teenagers.

The Soul of Athens

Author : Jan H. Blits
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106532
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Athens written by Jan H. Blits and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" studies Shakespeare's portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard's most memorable comedies. Coupling careful attention to detail with interpretive breadth, The Soul of Athens examines the nature of love, the natural doubleness of human thinking and the ambiguous relation of image and reality, as well as patriarchy and democracy, and heroic and moral virtue.

Venus and Adonis

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Venus and Adonis written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526243
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and emergent, experimental theatre companies. This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre. This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies, English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance, and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form across myriad diverse performance arenas.

Shakespeare's Reading Audiences

Author : Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107190649
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Reading Audiences written by Cyndia Susan Clegg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks what Shakespeare's contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.

The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy

Author : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854814
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy written by William C. Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval

Author : Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845180
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval written by Lindsay Ann Reid and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.

Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays

Author : L. Starks-Estes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349921
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays written by L. Starks-Estes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.