| Daniel Chapelle - Philosophy - 1993 - 268 pages
...dream. Methought I was—there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had—But man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will sing... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...transformed into St. Paul's mysterious vision of the things God has prepared for "them that love him": "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (MND 4.1.209-12). The regression which facilitates the religious vision also gives Bottom a sense of... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...say what dream it was.' Bottom then gives us a splendid perceptual distortion of / Corinthians 2.9: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.' (A Midsummer Night's Dream 1V. i. 209) COMMENTARY At one level this vignette seems little other than... | |
| Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patch 'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be call'd "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play,... | |
| Patricia A. Parker - Drama - 1996 - 408 pages
...and abandons the attempt at an orderly or comprehending discourse ("No more words. Away!" IV.i.42): Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream: it shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will sing... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patcht ose our ventures. CASSIUS. Then, with your will, go on; We'll along ourselves, and ballet of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The original passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose... | |
| Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...that the story of eye and ear in that play doubles the comic plot of inversion and anarchic confusion: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). Given the chaotic realignment of faculties and their functions in Bottoms speech, it... | |
| Theresa Enos - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 836 pages
...(5.1 (. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom evokes the ineffable wonder of his dream in explaining, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1l. As these examples suggest, hypallage is a figure of arrangement that creates poetic leaps of... | |
| Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.202-11) It is Bottom's sense in this speech that he has had an experience greater than he can... | |
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