Context and Authorial Purpose (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards
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When Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream
When Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream
Around 1595-1596
Meta-theatrical definition
Meta-theatrical definition
When a play is self-aware, commenting on theatre within the drama
Elizabethan marriage law requirement
Elizabethan marriage law requirement
Father's consent needed before age 21
Anti-theatrical prejudice definition
Anti-theatrical prejudice definition
Puritan hostility towards theatre viewed as sinful and deceptive
Classical source for transformation themes
Classical source for transformation themes
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Petrarchan conventions definition
Petrarchan conventions definition
Idealised love poetry style with elaborate metaphors & suffering
Midsummer festivities dates
Midsummer festivities dates
23-24 June (summer solstice)
Female roles in Elizabethan theatre played by
Female roles in Elizabethan theatre played by
Adolescent boys (women forbidden)
Speaker of 'The best in this kind are but shadows'
Speaker of 'The best in this kind are but shadows'
Theseus
Tripartite world structure in the play
Tripartite world structure in the play
Court, fairy realm, and mechanicals' workshop