 | Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 páginas
...responsibility, and within the play there is a hint of what that responsibility might be: THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. (vi 210-12) The performers ofPyramus and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 páginas
...wilful to hear without warning. rappOLYTA This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS The best in this kind are but shadows: and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA It must be your imagination then; and not theirs. THESEUS If we imagine no worse of them... | |
 | Jill Line - 2006 - 196 páginas
...on the part of the audience: HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. THESEUS: If we imagine no worse of them... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden - 2006 - 220 páginas
...earlier scepticism. The actors, he reflects, are amateurs doing what they can to please. After all, 'The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them' (5.1.208-9). Alongside what these hopeless performers are, we can glimpse what they might be, amending... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 2006 - 175 páginas
...argument passes almost unnoticed: HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows,- and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. (5.1.210-14) "How shall we find the concord... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 páginas
...silliest stuff that ever I heard"; Theseus, more sympathetic with the mechanics' pathetic efforts: "The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them" (5.1.209-11). Comedies are, of course, particularly rich in eavesdropping scenes which highlight performances... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, Bruce Ellis Benson - 2006 - 264 páginas
...acting of the amateur performers: HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. (5. 1.209-2 II)4 For these characters,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2006 - 226 páginas
...wilful to hear without warning. HIPPOLYTA This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them, zio HIPPOLYTA It must be your imagination, then, and not theirs. THESEUS if we imagine no worse of... | |
 | Michael Bibby, Lauren M. E. Goodlad - 2007 - 446 páginas
...indulgence that Theseus demonstrates for the mechanicals' performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5,1.213—14). This indulgence depends on our recognition that the recipients lack any capacity for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 páginas
...wilful to hear without warning. HIPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuff that e'er I heard. THESEUS. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. THESEUS. If we imagine no worse of them... | |
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The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. 
