Bottom, Thou Art Translated: Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Related LiteratureRodopi, 1973 - 255 páginas |
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... Richard Grafton's Chronicles : Kings may learn to depend upon God and knowledge his governance in their protection : the nobility may read the true honour of their ancestors ; the ecclesiastical state may learn to abhor traitorous ...
... Richard Grafton's Chronicles : Kings may learn to depend upon God and knowledge his governance in their protection : the nobility may read the true honour of their ancestors ; the ecclesiastical state may learn to abhor traitorous ...
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... Richard II to Edward IV . In 1563 , a new edition appeared , adding eight more stories , much longer and more dramatic than the original nineteen . These new poems mainly concerned the reign of Richard III and included the sections best ...
... Richard II to Edward IV . In 1563 , a new edition appeared , adding eight more stories , much longer and more dramatic than the original nineteen . These new poems mainly concerned the reign of Richard III and included the sections best ...
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... Richard II's reconciliation with the city of London was celebrated by a pageant that " compared Richard to Soloman , Troilus , Absolom , and Christ , " In a particularly pointed allegory he was portrayed as King Ahasuerus , of Biblical ...
... Richard II's reconciliation with the city of London was celebrated by a pageant that " compared Richard to Soloman , Troilus , Absolom , and Christ , " In a particularly pointed allegory he was portrayed as King Ahasuerus , of Biblical ...
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... Richard II was used by the historians , by the poets of The Mirror for Magistrates , and by dramatists to warn Queen Elizabeth about her behavior and policies , a situation which continued through- out most of her reign . In this ...
... Richard II was used by the historians , by the poets of The Mirror for Magistrates , and by dramatists to warn Queen Elizabeth about her behavior and policies , a situation which continued through- out most of her reign . In this ...
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... Richard II moralizes : Thus was king Richard deprived of all kinglie honour and princelie dignitie , by reason he was so given to follow evill counsell , and used such inconvenient waies and meanes , through insolent misgovernance , and ...
... Richard II moralizes : Thus was king Richard deprived of all kinglie honour and princelie dignitie , by reason he was so given to follow evill counsell , and used such inconvenient waies and meanes , through insolent misgovernance , and ...
Contenido
3 | |
31 | |
The Duke of Alençon and Edmund | 51 |
Devices Similar to Those in A Midsummer | 75 |
The Allegorical Roles of Alençon and | 131 |
The Succession to the Throne 15941595 | 167 |
The Prototypes of Bottom and His Crew | 189 |
The Actors in the Original Roles of A | 209 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 233 |
Términos y frases comunes
A. L. Rowse actors allegory Anjou Arabella Belphoebe Bevington Bothwell Bottom the Weaver Braggadochio Burghley Campaspe Campbell Catholic Corsites court crown Cynthia death Dictionary of National Duke of Alençon Earl of Essex Earl of Leicester Edmund Spenser Elvetham Endimion England English entertainments envoys Faerie Queene fair vestal fairies festivities Flute France François French Gascoyne Greene's Gunophilus Halpin Hatfield House heir Henry VIII Hercule Hertford Hume Ibid James Burbage John Lyly Kemp Kenilworth King Lady Katharine Laneham later Leicester's letter lion London Lopez Lord lover Lyly's Majesty Manuscripts Marquis of Salisbury marriage married Mary Midas Midsummer Night's Dream Miss Rickert Monsieur moon Mother Hubberd's Tale National Biography Oberon Oxford Pandora passim Phao Philip play plot poets political allegory Pope Prince Pyramus Queen Elizabeth Quincé Richard Richard II Robert role Sapho satire says Scotland seems Shakespeare Spain Spenser suitor Tellus thou throne Titania topical Woman wrote
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Página 76 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 76 - I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página 92 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 118 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Página 92 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Página 220 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Página 7 - ... laden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality, better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how this world goeth than how his own wit runneth...
Página 76 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 6 - The historian scarcely giveth leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he, loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality...
Página 20 - The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London, concerning some talke past of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erie of Leycester and his friendes in England (Antwerp, 1584), p.