Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2017
Department
English
Keywords
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, marriage, love
Abstract
What is the best context for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? The play was probably written in 1594-95, then just before or after Romeo and Juliet. With its farce of tragic love in the play of Pyramus and Thisby (“‘very tragical mirth’” 5.1.57), is the play a witty rejoinder to that of the star-crossed lovers, making the pair of plays an exercise in the range of romantic genres?
Recommended Citation
De Smith, B. (2017). Who Needs Men? Titania’s World and Shakespeare’s Argument for Marriage In A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/faculty_work/965
Comments
Presented at the 2017 Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, held in Minot, North Dakota.