ENGLISH 117S Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hermia, Main Plot, Perforce Software
13 Oct 2017
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Airy light play about fresh new non-cynical feelings regarding romantic love. Midsummer nights dream is a much more straightforward propaganda play, more straightforward in elizabethan service. Most of the characters in the play aren"t standard shakespeare character within interiority these characters are who they seem and say they are, aren"t any deeper allegorical characters. Should be immediately understandable without much psychological speculation. I was with hercules and cadmus once. Poetry which has not much to do w/ current context (unlike theseus) but is remembering something. With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling. (act 1. 1) Be it so she will not here before your grace. Know of your youth, examine well your blood, To live a barren sister all your life, Either to die the death or to abjure. Hippoylta"s wedding and the play); fairly different social spectacle from the other two. And won her soul, and she, sweet lady, dotes,
