Links Database: A Midsummer Night's Dream

• "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Bowen, Julia A. "'Swift hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (SRASP) 20 (1997). Bowen examines how Lyly and Shakespeare took advantage of Elizabeth's established iconography to make the queen a presence in their dramas and to what effect:

  keywords: dream, early modern, elizabeth, iconography, MND, midsummer, night's, renaissance

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• "Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts": Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PETRARCH%20PYRAMUS.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts': Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Steele looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream's play-within-a-play to examine the influence of the Petrarchan idiom and Romeo and Juliet:

  keywords: MND, midsummer night's dream, metadrama, rhetoric, Rom, romeo and juliet, petrarch, pyramus, thisby

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/ITALIAN%20DREAM.txt

  Leslie, Robert W. "Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento Sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Leslie argues that not only is the setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream largely Italian, but the plot is also influenced by Italian sources:

  keywords: italian, italy, MND, midsummer night's dream, source

  valid as of 2005-09-07