WEEK 3
In todays lecture, we focused on "A Midsummer Nights Dream". MG spoke in great detail about this wonderful play. What i always find to be the most interesting about Shakespeares plays is the voices and personalities that he so distinctly gives each character. Midsummer Nights Dream is perhaps one of the richest examples of the variety and diversity ( Read more... )
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I am also loving A Midsummer Nights dream, Shakespeare is a funny guy and it's especially obvious in this play.
One of the bits that I find really funny is when Helena is whinging about how Demetrius is in love with Hermia. She gets a little melodramatic:
"Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies:
For she has blessed and attractive eyes.
How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears-
If so, my eyes are oft'ner washed than hers.
No no, I am as ugly as a bear
For beasts that meet me run away for fear."
Basically she's saying "Hermia is happy because she's got beautiful eyes, why don't I? I am cried so much about this... I'm grotesquely ugly and everything in the whole world thinks so"
I think it just perfectly captures the needy, over-dramatic freakouts that happen when one is young, insecure and in love.
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I love the fairies and the whole atmosphere of the play so magical and mystical and the picture you've put in just pulls it together so well. Shakespeare's use of rhyme, iambic pentameter and his words that come from the fairies, so soft and whimsical just lends to play and the feel of it, that dream like quality of reality and fantasy and deja vu`! The different plots throughout but he links it all so well to make it seem like dream.
I have to admit I watched the movie with Michelle Pfiffer and it gave me a clearer picture of the play and language, it helped enormously as does MG, always making it enjoyable.
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