This week we're studying The Comedies. I have chosen:
which is a nice successor to Richard III because I think I've about had it with death. Give me some love and laughter, please.
Bevington says A Midsummer Night's Dream develops
This play begins with four young lovers who travel into the Athenian forest due the laws of the land positioned against youth and romantic choice in love. The penalties against the law are either death or life-long sovereignty (i.e. virginity--which is apparently worth than a death sentence to these people). The play is about "the triumph of young love over the machinations of age and wealth" and pokes fun at the irrationality of love and its "affinity to enchantment, witchcraft, and even madness."
Theseus and Hippolyta are about to be married...
Hermia is betrothed to Demetrius but is in love with Lysander...
Lysander loves Hermia in return and plans for them to runaway together...
Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius loves Hermia....
and somewhere along the line a man with the head of a donkey has an affair with the Fairy Queen,
...And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Needless to say, I'm excited to start reading this play.
Schedule:
Mon 1/31--watch "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Tues 2/1--Read Act I & II
Wed 2/2--Read Act III, IV
Thurs 2/3-Read Act V
Fri 2/4- Interview with...
which is a nice successor to Richard III because I think I've about had it with death. Give me some love and laughter, please.
Bevington says A Midsummer Night's Dream develops
"..love as an imaginative journey from a world of social conflict into a fantasy world created by the artist, ending in a return to a reality that has itself been partly transformed by the experience of the journey."Which is such a romantic description and I believe very close to what real love is. It begins as an imaginative, whimsical love that, after traveled through experience, has transformed into a deep seeded love strengthened by both reality and dreams.
This play begins with four young lovers who travel into the Athenian forest due the laws of the land positioned against youth and romantic choice in love. The penalties against the law are either death or life-long sovereignty (i.e. virginity--which is apparently worth than a death sentence to these people). The play is about "the triumph of young love over the machinations of age and wealth" and pokes fun at the irrationality of love and its "affinity to enchantment, witchcraft, and even madness."
Theseus and Hippolyta are about to be married...
Hermia is betrothed to Demetrius but is in love with Lysander...
Lysander loves Hermia in return and plans for them to runaway together...
Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius loves Hermia....
and somewhere along the line a man with the head of a donkey has an affair with the Fairy Queen,
...And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Needless to say, I'm excited to start reading this play.
Schedule:
Mon 1/31--watch "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Tues 2/1--Read Act I & II
Wed 2/2--Read Act III, IV
Thurs 2/3-Read Act V
Fri 2/4- Interview with...
