Links Database: Keyword night's

• "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

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

  A lightly annotated hypertext edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream by 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 Dream in 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