Links Database: Keyword MND

• "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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates in A Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:

  keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07