"Wrinkled Deep in Time": Emily and Arcite in "A
Midsummer Night's Dream."
- Author / Editor
- Barr, Helen.
"Wrinkled Deep in Time": Emily and Arcite in "A
Midsummer Night's Dream."
Midsummer Night's Dream."
- Published
- Shakespeare Survey 65 (2012): 12-25.
- Description
- Argues that Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" alludes to KnT (particularly the figures of Emelye and Arcite) in ways that "perforate the boundaries" of the chronology of Shakespeare's borrowings the from the tale in "Dream" and in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Though absent in "Dream," the characters and their plots are present in images and allusive details that raise vexing questions about temporality and source relations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and :Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale