Shakespeare: The Word and the Action

The Multiple Actions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1x2)

Fecha de emisión: Ene 01, 1995

The lecture discusses A Midsummer Night's Dream, emphasizing plot construction. Analogous actions constitute a primary wavelength in Shakespearean drama. Each of the plot lines in Dream concerns love; each displays aspects of love as personal emotions and powerful forces in society and the universe. The lecture concludes by showing the diversity of Dream organized into binaries of place such as court/forest and sunlight/moonlight; binaries of emotion such as duty/desire and reason/madness; and binaries of existence such as illusion/constancy.