ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermia, Cupid

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2P80
• Professor: Mathew Martin

Document Summary

Engl2p80 a midsummer night"s dream lecture 2. Midsummer nights dream concept of reality nightmare. This play has its roots in shakespeare"s earlier comedies. Critiques suggest that the play establishes a new comic model or paradigm and called it festive comedies. The relationship between the sexual and the social. The creation of a world removed both in time and space from the everyday ordinary world. None of the removed worlds in later comedies posses the dream like space like in this play. Characters find a degree of release of constraints of the everyday world in festive comedies. Like holidays, festive worlds are only temporary the characters have the opportunity to sort their problems out before returning to the ordinary world. The festive world is not just an escape from the everyday world, but also a preparation for the return to the everyday world a place of clarification, they are free to sort problems out.