The Response Phase for Romeo and Juliet.
The Response Phase for Romeo and Juliet We were given a text 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' by William Shakespeare to work on and develop towards performance. We used this text as previously we had worked on another Shakesprean play 'The Tempest' and had enjoyed this, so we thought this would be a good opportunity for a follow up. The main themes we explored and discovered in ' A Midsummer Nights Dream' were oppression, freedom, power and various forms of love; Passion like the love shown between Theseus and Hippolyta, Parental Love resembling the love shared between Egeus and his daughter Hermia and finally Unconditional love the same as the love shared between Lysander and Hermia; for this play I was put into a group of four- two males and two females, then we were given a scene to work with and develop in our group, our particular scene was Act one- the court scene for which I was given the role of Hermia's father Egeus. To help develop our characters further we used explorative strategies, these were, freeze frames, hot seating, role-play and a tableau as well as marking the moment and thought tracking to give our character more depth and background. Tableau To show the theme of we used ten people for this strategy of mixed gender. The tableau consisted of five people standing in a row on a chair; this was to symbolise their roles as the oppressors as they were socially
A Critical of the Opening Scene In BBC’s Video Midsummer Nights Dream Scene One.
A critical of the opening scene In BBC's video midsummer Nights Dream Scene one. The duke, Thesus is listening to the complaint from the father of Hermia. The father is stating that Hermia wishes to marry a young man called Lysander, Egeus has prohibited this and wants his daughter to marry Demetrius. However, Hermia has told that she will only marry Lysander her true love. Thesus while listening has told her that she must do what her father says or otherwise she will have to become a nun or worse death. Hermia and Lysander are devastated by this news. Lysander with his quick thinking discusses about leaving Athens far away where the laws would not affect them. Lysander has an aunt who treats him like a son she is wealthy and has a house this is where they can run away to and become husband and wife. They arrange to meet up in the forest and elope. Helena is in love with Demetrius, she over hears about Lysander and Hermia talking about how they will escape and elope to another city. When watching the BBC video many parts of the script where left out as some of the sayings where just nonsense and was not needed. The characters that played parts in the play were well fitted as they wore the right cloths and were best suited there build and physical appearance matched what I would have imagined. For example they made Helena sound very desperate in the text when
Midsummer Night's Dream
How is the conflict between illusion and reality central to the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream ? A Midsummer Night's Dream is a dramatic comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595. It's a play about characters who confuse reality and illusion. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. The whole play takes place in Athens- and around 'the cradle of civilisation'. In the play Athens represent the world of reality where people are under rule of order, sanity and enlightenment, whereas the Woods is the home of illusion. The fairies inhabit the moonlit forest where irrational things happen. The words in the title 'night's dream' suggest that everything happens at night, when the moon is dominant. The moon was significant during the Elizabethan era, since it represented the world of mystery and was associated with magic. The moon affected people's behaviour turning them into 'lunatics' who cannot distinguish reality from illusion. Most of the actions in the play are performed at night by the moonlight. The moon has different images throughout the play. It has both positive and negative imagery. The moon's power is mysterious and often people become bewitched by its influence.An example of this is how Egeus believes that the love of Lysander is induced by magic. This man has bewitched the bosom of my child: Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast given her
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a famous Shakespearean play in which two couples have engaged themselves in complex love relationships.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a famous Shakespearean play in which two couples have engaged themselves in complex love relationships. Lysander / Hermia and Helena / Demetrius are the central young lovers whose goal in the play is to overcome love obstacles through help from Puck's magic, fate and the acts of friendship. These two couples dealing with their complex love relationships show many similarities in their actions, dialogues and feelings towards their lovers. Hermia and Helena act similarly in order to be with their lovers. Lysander and Hermia cannot be together due to Hermia's father's objection where as Helena loves Demetrius but he does not return her love. In the beginning, Hermia is forced to marry someone whom she does not love. Her father tells her if she does not obey him then she has to act according to the Athenian law, which is to either marry Demetrius or become a nun, or either die. Hermia, however, does not want to obey the law so she decides to leave the city with Lysander and find a place where they will be accepted as lovers. For love, she is willing to give up her high place in society and sacrifice her loving relationship with her father. On the other hand, Helena, she has to force Demetrius to love her. When he tells her that he is going after Hermia, she says, clinging onto him desperately, that "the more [he] beats [her], [she] will fawn on [him]"
A Midsummer Nights Dream presents us with one of the most complex plots Shakespeare has written. He uses the fairies magical prowess to influence the lover's feelings and to make them fall in and out of love with each other.
Coursework A Midsummer Nights Dream presents us with one of the most complex plots Shakespeare has written. He uses the fairies magical prowess to influence the lover's feelings and to make them fall in and out of love with each other. He does this to keep the audience enthralled in the play. In the city of Athens, Hermia is in love with Lysander and wants to marry him. Unfortunate for her, Egeus, her father has decided that another man is more suitable for her. Both men love Hermia and want to marry her. The disagreement between the father, daughter and her two admirers is brought before the Duke, Theseus. For the law to decide upon the outcome. Theseus tells Hermia that, even though he understands that Lysander is as good a man as Demetrius (the man Hermia's father wants her to marry). However it is her fathers right to decide whom she will marry. If Hermia refuses to do as he father wishes, she might be put to death or forced to spend the rest of her live in a convent. Hermia's best friend, Helena is in love with Demetrius. Though he is not interested in her because he only has eyes for Hermia. Helena is upset that two men adore her friend, whereas she has none. Hermia and Lysander then plot to leave Athens to escape the law. Helena tells Demetrius in an attempt to win him over. However Demetrius vows to kill Lysander for his wrongdoing. Helena follows him into
The idea of being 'a lover' in Shakespearean drama has its own conventions. Discuss with regard to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Richard III'.
ENGL/THEA 208 SHAKESPEARE 2007 ESSAY ONE ~ DUE MON 3RD SEPT CHARLOTTE FRENCH ID 300075543 TUTORIAL ~ GEOFF MILES TUES 4-5 WORD COUNT ~ 1546 INCL QUOTES The idea of being 'a lover' in Shakespearean drama has its own conventions. This lies within the differing conventions of the genres of Shakespearean plays, and the differing part a character has to play within the plot in a different play. In the cases of The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richard III) and A Midsummer Night's Dream, being a tragedy and a comedy respectively the central characters and their purposes differ significantly. On one hand, Richard is the evil protagonist whose intense desire and love for power drives the plot, and on the other hand Hermia and Lysander seem to have no significant role other than as lovers around which the plot unfolds. Passage A from Richard III, (4. 4. 273.1-55, Norton) documents part of a conversation between Richard and his brother King Edward IV's widow Queen Elizabeth. Richard is asking that Queen Elizabeth convince her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, to marry him. Richard is the Princess's uncle, and he is responsible for the deaths of Princess Elizabeth's brothers and some of her uncles. Richard originally wants Queen Elizabeth to tell the Princess he "did all this for love of her" (Shakespeare, Richard III, 4. 4. 273.1). The way that Richard goes about
Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare Gains & retains the audiences In act I scene I of "A Midsummer nights Dream".
Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare Gains & retains the audiences In act I scene I of "A Midsummer nights Dream" The name of the play is called "A Midsummer nights dream." The play was written by William Shakespeare from the town of Stratford, the play "A Midsummer Nights Dream" was written at around 1590, an exact date is not known. It is a witty comedy, which is one of his earlier ones. Just before the Elizabethans period the only plays were heard was by performing them at the courtyards of English Inns. The courtyards were good places for plays because a big circle in which everyone could crowd round while the actors did a play in the middle, after the first theatre was built the plays still went on in Inns to get the local audience. When plays came on in the sixteenth centaury nearly everyone went to them, the poor the rich, the old and young, literally no one was left out. In the sixteenth centaury there was no such thing as lights special effects or electricity, so therefore plays looked very bland and plain. People went to hear the play and this is why Shakespeare tells everyone about the character, where they are going, who they are with. This is why Theseus keeps repeating the words "four happy days" about his wedding. This is so the audience know when it is and it stays in their heads. He uses the word "Wo'od" for Theseus wooing Hippolyita with "his sword."
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'The course of true love never did run smooth' By what techniques does Shakespeare prove this to be the case in A Midsummer night dream? Even the most dedicated Shakespeare fan may find the plot of a midsummer night dream confusing; it's meant to be. Though the situation is certainly complicated from the beginning, the plays dramatic device, the fairies, do excellent jobs in creating even more confusion between the four lovers, as they expertly influence their thoughts and feelings in a far-fetched way. Though it's mainly accidental, the fairies do everything in their power to support the quote 'the course of true love never did run smooth'. Shakespeare manages to influence the audiences' feelings towards the characters varying who we feel sorry for and the entertainment we are given. Moreover, the audience is let in on the secret of why the lovers' feelings change towards each other. This makes it very humorous and interesting for us to watch. An example of this happening in the 21st century would be, Eastenders. We are let in on the secret that Jayne has secret feelings for Grant when she is with Ian. As a result of Pucks mistake, poor Hermia is abandoned by Lysander, who has had a 'surfeit' of her and she is left alone with fear. Her language now really succeeds in helping us feel sorry for her. For a moment, she uses some disturbing images of snakes ( many peoples
A Midsummer Night's Dream dramatises the power of the imagination to shape and to dissolve identity; this power is a source of
A Midsummer Night's Dream dramatises the power of the imagination to shape and to dissolve identity; this power is a source of wonder but it can also be extremely disturbing. In A Midsummer Night's Dream some of the main themes are magic, dreams, illusion and reality. It is a play about four worlds which combine and create a magical, yet creepy atmosphere where love is overpowered by the magic of the faeries. The whole play is based around the idea that there is a greater force out there that can step in a change how we think and what we do. This idea is intriguing to us because we want to learn more about this other world, but at the same time it is scary to think that there is something else out there that we don't know about and yet we don't want to know about as we don't like to think that there is something more powerful that can control us. There is a great deal of confusion going on in the play which is at its peak in the middle section when the lovers are made to fall in love with the wrong people. Bottom is given an ass' head and Titania is made to fall in love with him so that Oberon can have his fun. Oberon is the main character in this play, mainly because he is the reason for most of the magical things happening. He orders Puck to go out and collect the flower that is used to perform the spell "Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again ere the leviathan can
How Shakespeare shows the different aspects of love in Act 3 scene 2 in a Midsummer Night's Dream.
How Shakespeare shows the different aspects of love in Act 3 scene 2 in a Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy that tells the story of four young lovers trying to evade reality and the fate that beckons them by going into a magical wood. Act 3 scene 2 is based in the woods; this place is shown as a place of mystery and magic, closely associated with the fairies. It is also a place where snakes, spiders, beetles, bats and other creatures, believed to be or actually dangerous, can threaten the peace of even one as powerful as Titania. This is the longest scene in the play; indeed it is longer than any of the play's other acts. The sport Puck unintentionally causes - but greatly enjoys - reaches a climax, which might prove fatal but for his intervention; at the end of the scene when he tells the audience that "all shall be well", and this leads naturally to the rivals making up in the next act, three happy in Act 5. The play moves into the wood, which is haunted by fairies that are there to bless the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. The quarreling between Oberon and Titania over the changeling boy leads to the king wanting to embarrass Titania with the love juice by making her fall in love with a monster. The first person she sees is Bottom and she falls violently in love with him. Oberon is making a spectacle of Titania and Bottom. It is