8-5Pyramus&Thisbe

//Answer Prepared by Robby S.// ** In the book __Shakespeare Script, Stage, Screen__ by David Bevington Shakespeare wrote //__A Midsummer Night's Dream__// and //__Romeo and Juliet__// at around the same time. "Shakespeare was interested in oer-hasty marriages and the consequences of falling in love to quickly," states David Bevington. Shakespeare has never experimented with such disparate elements. "He also has deprived multiple plot borrowed from legend, literature, and folktales from various cultures," explains David Bevingtion. Oberon is from a medieval romance called Huon of Boreaux (German myth). Titania the Faerie Queen immortalized in a poem by Edmind Spenser but Shakespeare specifically calls her Titania borrowed from a Latin poet, Ovid who refers to the moon by the title. "Shakespeare also composes an amusing parody of St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians for Bottoms attempt to articulate the extraordinary "dream" celebrating his night in Titania's bower," from the book Shakespeare Script, Stage, Screen. Amanda Mabillard states from the webpage “Midsummer Night’s Dream” that Geoffery Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, specifically the //__Knights Tale__// may have been a source that Shakespeare used for the characters Theseus and Hippolyta. Shakespeare could have also used Plutarch’s __Life of Theseus__ which also contains some stories about Pyramus and Thisbe. The story of Pyramus and Thisbe provided Shakespeare with a primary plot and the metatheatrical device of a play-within-a-play in the book __ Shakespeare Script, Stage, and Screen. __ In the article "The play-within-a-play: tragical mirth" they say "In Pyramus and Thisbe, Shakespeare parodies earlier plays, and presumably earlier acting styles." Also the reason Francis Flute played Thisbe was because he was the youngest there. From the article " Pyramus and Thisbe, Page to Stage" the story Pyramus and Thisbe is from Ovid's __ Metamorphosis. __ Shakespeare then adds it to the play but didn't totally keep it like the original version meaning he changed it a little bit. Shakespeare did his research and found the characters and their back round story to create such a marvelous play. Works Cited: Best, Michael. "The play-within-the-play: tragical mirth." __Internet Shakespeare Edition__ February 1998 12 Mar 2009 .
 * WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF //A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM// AND “PYRAMUS AND THISBE”?

Bevington, David, Anne Marie, and Michael. //__Shakespeare Script, Stage, Screen__//. Hamilton Printing Company, 2006. Mabillard, Amanda. "Sources: A Midsummer Night's Dream". Shakespeare Online. 2000. http://www.shakespeare-online.com 7 April, 2009. "Pyramus and Thisbe, Page to Stage." Folger Shakespeare Library 12 Mar 2009 [].

media type="youtube" key="3i8unA3hBdU" height="344" width="425"