A Midsummer Night's Dream Critics Flashcards

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What was Regina Buccola’ feminist view on the play?

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“the play sympathies with rebellious women,”

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How does Ryan note on parallels in the play?

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“the Athenian scenes frame the scenes of erotic mayhem in the woods

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How does Hopkins note on marriage within the play?

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“single or multiple marriages provide a sense of comic closure,”

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How does Kriegar note on the fact the play is a conservative genre?

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“The lovers flee Athens to win autonomy, but their actions remain systematic and codified,”

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What is Dent’s comment on love?

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“The origin of love never lies in reason,”

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How does Garber comment on love?

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“AMND is throughout a celebration of the irrationality of love, not a criticism of the failure of reason,”

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How did Laroque comment on the woods in the play?

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“[The Greenworld is] a place of escape from the constraints of the law and everyday life,”

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How does Denise Waterman: BBC online news magazine compares Bottom to Miranda?

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“Bottom is silly and bossy but ultimately very lovable. He makes a fool if himself but his stupidity is endearing, innocent and never malicious.”

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How does Fender comment on metatheatre in play?

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“The mechanical’s performance of Pyramus and Thisbe is a parody of the lovers,”

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How does Synder comment on the conservative genre?

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“Shakespeare’s women on top speciality has its own relevance in the comic mode, which rejoices like the seasonal festivals that animate it in temporary placing servants over masters and women over men, dislocating the hierarchies sanctioned but it’s society only to reassert them at the end of the play,”

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What was Kerr’ comments on marriage?

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“To be comic, the ending must forcefully call into question the issues of happiness and forever after

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How did Carlson comment on the conservative genre?

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“Women are allowed their brilliance, freedom and power in comedy only because the genre has built - in safe - guards against such behaviour

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How did Gay comment on unacceptable behaviour in the play?

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“indecorous,”

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What did Frye call the woods?

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“Greenworld,”

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How did Gay comment on the conservative genre?

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“Comedy, while delighting in the events of a briefly topsy turvy world it is ultimately conservative,”

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What does Gay believe comedy inhabits?

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“a liminal space,”

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What is Wilson’s Marxist view on the play?

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“sees the play as supporting the ruling class,”

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What does Hazlitt say about Puck?

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The description of puck as not pitting but laughing at those whom he deceives

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What does Maslen say about articulating concern?

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The comedy genre itself gave actors a voice and allowed them to articulate their concerns in a time of high political tensions

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What is C.L. Barber’s opinion about festive comedies?

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He used his knowledge of Elizabethan rituals and festivals to argue that the subversive inversion in the central section of the play. During the period, rules were suspended and normal hierarchies were inverted.

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What does Ryan comment about the mechanicals?

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The mechanical performance of Pyramus of Thisbe along with the comic romance between Bottom and Titania undermine authority and provide a levelling effect

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What does Emma Smith argue within her article Dream, illusion and Doubling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

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  • Doubling helped the audience to make connections and contrasts especially between characters heightening the fantastical elements
  • The fickleness of love in the play implies that lovers are interchangeable
  • The play is meant to be for children due to Victorian images which is ironic due to the dark nature of the fairies and the dark undertones in the play
  • Parallelism between Hermia and Helena emphasises how both characters are driven by love