The debate surrounding "Bottom's dream" in A Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1. has hitherto been focused almost exclusively on Shakespeare's intentions: Did Shakespeare intend this to be an audible reference to 1 Corinthians 2.9T10? What does this say about his vision for the play? I instead examine this play from the critically neglected perspective of the spirituality of the Elizabethan playgoer. After a thorough examination of popular 16th century religious works, I suggest that the spiritual playgoer could have drawn on a particularly Pauline religious knowledge—obtained through exposure to theological discourse, printed and heard—in responding to A Midsummer Night's Dream.Arts, Faculty ofEnglish, Department ofGraduat
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Much recent Shakespeare scholarship has maintained the assumptions of New Historicism when consideri...
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This thesis analyses four plays by Shakespeare for evidence of Shakespeare’s familiarity with Hermet...
Christian values permeated all aspects of human activity in sixteenth century England; the basic tru...
Scholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare ‘s language abounds in Biblical allusions and re...
Post-Freudian and post-Foucauldian readings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream assume that the play celebr...
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Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No bio...
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-C...
Pastoral challenges prompted pietists among Elizabethan Catholics and Calvinists to commend what his...
The opinion that A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream is largely a shimmering fabric of moonlight, with a t...
Much recent Shakespeare scholarship has maintained the assumptions of New Historicism when consideri...
The first study of private prayers as play scripts, miniature fictions requiring the reader to enter...
The importance of the character Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream will be discussed. He is...
Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft argued that God's omnipotence precluded the existence of an...
This thesis analyses four plays by Shakespeare for evidence of Shakespeare’s familiarity with Hermet...
Christian values permeated all aspects of human activity in sixteenth century England; the basic tru...
Scholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare ‘s language abounds in Biblical allusions and re...
Post-Freudian and post-Foucauldian readings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream assume that the play celebr...
This thesis argues that Shakespeare\u27s stage recuperated but also transformed remnants of medieval...
This article investigates the relationship between dreams and lies in William Shakespeare\u27s The ...
The writers’s reason for choosing the drama and A Midsummer Nights Dream play to be researching is ...
Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No bio...
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-C...
Pastoral challenges prompted pietists among Elizabethan Catholics and Calvinists to commend what his...
The opinion that A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream is largely a shimmering fabric of moonlight, with a t...
Much recent Shakespeare scholarship has maintained the assumptions of New Historicism when consideri...
The first study of private prayers as play scripts, miniature fictions requiring the reader to enter...