Author: Alfred Trübner NuttPublisher:
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Category : Fairies in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: Alfred Trübner NuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Fairy Mythology in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Author: Melitta TöllerPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638923940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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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.
Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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A Midsummer-night's Dream
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith
Author: Regina BuccolaPublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575911038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: Alfred NuttIllustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare
Author: Folk-lore of Shakespeare
Author: Thomas Firminger Thiselton-DyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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