Toolbox

Links Database: Keyword dream

• "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA 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'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA 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 inA 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

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/midsummer1.html

  A lightly annotated hypertext edition ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamby Basia Siedlecki, a student in the University of Northern British Columbia interdisciplinary MA program. This site is useful for high school students or those not used to Shakespearean turns of phrases - definitions provided:

  keywords: british, dream, edition, midsummer, mnd, night's

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• A Midsummer Night's Web and MOO

  http://cmc.uib.no/dream/frames/main.html

  A Midsummer Night's Dreamin hypertext, with some annotations from the University of Bergen. The annotation is thorough and thoughtful. This display requires a large monitor to be easily legible.

  keywords: dream, midsummer, mnd, night's, annotation

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/archive.goals.html

  ThePiers Plowman Electronic Archive, created by Hoyt N. Duggan, aims to achieve a "multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman":

  keywords: archive, piers, plowman, allegory, dream

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Langland

  valid as of 2005-09-15