Reading 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Through Middle English Romance
- Author / Editor
- Driver, Martha W.
Reading 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Through Middle English Romance
- Published
- Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings (Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2009), pp. 140-60.
- Description
- Focusing on Oberon and the mechanicals, Driver explores how medieval romances influenced Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and twentieth-century adaptations of it, observing the influences of KnT, Th, and other romances.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Knight and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas