A Midsummer Night's Dream : synopsis photo

A Midsummer Night’s Dream : synopsis

Act I Scene 1 Theseus and Hippolyta look ahead to their wedding day, in four days’ time. Hermia plans to defy her father and elope with Lysander, but Helena reveals their plan to Lysander’s rival, Demetrius. The scene takes place in Athens. The characters are : Duke Theseus Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.  Egeus and …

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream : a comedy

Introduction Shakespeare has used many genres to convey his stories, especially comedies, tragedies and historical plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy. A comedy is a kind of drama which is intended primarily to entertain the audience and which usually ends unhappily for the characters. There are: romantic comedies: revolving around love (As you …

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Structure in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I – Characters and structure Multiplicity of lines. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is remarkable for the many levels of its text. The play is different from Romeo and Juliet or the Taming of the Shrew (which have one main plot) because of the various levels of plots and characters. There are 4 levels: Theseus and …

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Introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Place of the play in Shakespeare’s work A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most famous and successful nplays by Shakespeare. The play is part of the early work of Shakespeare (1554-1616), it was written and performed in 1595-1596, just after The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. There is …

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Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Introduction The characters are set in a given space and time. Shakespeare draws his material from a large body of social background, historical facts and myth: let us see the Greek background, the May festivities, and the fairies and spirits. I – Greek background The play is set in early Greece, in Athens. It is …

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An English Romanticism painting of a landscape with trees and hills. William Turner, Dawn in the Valleys of Devon.

English Romanticism (1798-1832)

This is post 4 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries English Romanticism began in …

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The Great Gatsby : the Romantic Quest photo

The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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The Great Gatsby: an American novel photo

The Great Gatsby: an American novel

This is post 6 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee : chapter analysis photo

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee : chapter analysis

This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Cider with Rosie” Comprehensive literary analysis articles delving into the depths of the novel Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee : chapter analysis Relatives in “Cider With Rosie” by Laurie Lee Here is an analysis of each chapter in Cider …

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Hurghada : Église copte orthodoxe, Mosquée et marina photo 5

Hurghada : Église copte orthodoxe, Mosquée et marina

Cinquième journée de l’Egyptian Summer Trip 2010. Aujourd’hui, c’est ma journée off : piscine, plage, spa… c’est les vacances et on se relaxe à fond ! C’est un peu la journée qui fait le pont entre deux journées de bus donc on en profite : lézardage à la piscine, bronzage sur la plage, plongée en …

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Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Home photo

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – Home

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros est un groupe américain formé par Alex Ebert (vocals, guitare, percussion, piano) et Jade Castrinos (vocals, guitare). Après avoir quitté sa petite amie de toujours et quitté un programme contre l’addiction, Alex Ebert a commencé l’écriture d’un livre sur un personnage messianique appelé Edward Sharpe. Ce dernier “a été …

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Concert de Tom McRae et Brian Wright à la Cigale photo 4

Concert de Tom McRae et Brian Wright à la Cigale

Mardi, c’était la grève mais cela ne m’a pas empêché d’aller voir Tom McRae en concert à la Cigale, dans le 18ème arrondissement de Paris (arrêt de métro Pigalle sur la ligne 2). Bon, par contre j’ai loupé le RER à 2 minutes donc j’ai dû prendre le suivant, 40 minutes plus tard ! J’ai …

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Concert de Chris Rea à l’Olympia

Je suis allé au concert de Chris Rea à l’Olympia. Je me suis un peu perdu en m’y rendant : d’habitude j’y arrive en métro ou en voiture, là j’y suis allé en RER (St Lazare) et je me suis retrouvé à marcher quasiment une borne ! Bon. Une fois là-bas, une hôtesse me place …

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The ordering of events in The Great Gatsby

This is post 5 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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Structure and Narration in The Great Gatsby

This is post 4 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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