| Michele Marrapodi - 2007 - 310 páginas
...player of a troupe; he rather illustrates Theseus's remark about the mechanicals as performers: 'The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them' (5.1.210). Double meanings probably apply that the ephemeral nature of acting succeeds if the spectators'... | |
| Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 238 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. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5.1.202—9 Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure GAVIN... | |
| Paul Woodruff - 2008 - 272 páginas
...is completed for a slightly less annoying audience, thanks to Theseus 's compassionate defense: "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them." Theater inside theater may advance the plot (as in Hamlet), it may show us our worst tendencies as... | |
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