A Midsummer night's dream: language and writing
This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse u...
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| Summary: | This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations |
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CONTENTS Series Editor’s Preface ix Introduction 1 1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Shakespeare’s Time 13 From stage to page: reading Shakespeare 13 Shakespeare’s own language 17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Shakespeare’s writing career 23 Sources and borrowings as Shakespeare’s word-trove 29 Making an Elizabethan play: metatheatre 38 2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Our Time 47 The rise of professional literary criticism and Shakespeare in education 47 3 Unfolding the Play Through Language 59 Narrative and plotting 59 Speech acts 62 Time and illusions 67 The audience experience 72 4 Hearing Shakespeare’s Language 81 Shakespeare for the blind 81
vi CONTENTS The music of poetry: rhythm, rhyme, blank verse, alliteration 91 ‘Speaking pictures’: metaphor and images 96 Responsive listening in dialogues 99 5 Languages of Love 105 The nuptial hour 105 Young love 108 Jealousy and adultery 115 Love-hate 117 Parodyinglove 119 Monstrous love: beauty and the beast 121 ‘And all things shall be peace’ 124 6 Language of Dreaming 129 Dreams and visions 129 Waking dreams 133 Dreams and imagination 136 Dream logic, dramatic logic and time 141 7 Languages of Nature: ‘Purple Passages’ in the Green World 145 ‘Purple passages’: redundant and surplus language? 148 ‘Dilation’ 158 8 Language of Change: Myth, Race and Gender 171 Myth and change 171 Changelings and racial difference 176 Bottom as changeling: art and myth 180 Actors and gender 182
CONTFNTî vii 9 From Page to Screen: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cinematic Language 187 Movie language: Shakespeare for the deaf 187 Movies in history 189 A Midsummer Night’s Dream on film 193 Offshoots and oddities 200 10 Writing Matters 203 Read 205 Reflect 205 Explore 205 Plan 206 Revise, annotate, check, proofread, bibliography 207 A few more tips 208 Appendix: Shakespeare’s Works in Approximate Chronological Order 211 Bibliography 215
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies, and its critical reception: an account of the play's movie adaptations completes the volume. Each chapter offers a ’writing matters’ section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations. |
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