...darker tragedy. At the end of the play, Theseus disparages imagination's power to metamorphose reality: Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear! (5.ll 8-22) Theseus engages in his own magisterial act of meiosis, denying the reciprocity involved...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos 'da bear! (continued) Lesson 35: Shakespeare's Message in A Midsummer Nights Dream 5. In the...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! (5. 1 .2-8; 14-22) So speaks the voice of "cool reason," for Theseus is hardly endorsing...

...to be Quince's translation of Ovid'. 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream, vi 355-6. 3 Ibid. IV. i. 2i5-i6. Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear!5 Reading this text based on the Folio version is a curiously unbalanced experience. There are...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! (vi) Theseus is a man of the day and everyday living. He knows nothing of the mysteries...

...la noche" de Shakespeare más allá del Sueño, por maravillosa que sea la obra. "No, os lo aseguro; tricks hath strong imagination, / That if it would...imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush suppos'da bear! [Vi2-22] 18. But all the story of the night told over, / And all their minds transfigur'd so together,...

...strong belief. This passage recalls Theseus's reflection on imagination from A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppose'da bear! (Vi4-22)40 Where Theseus argues from the improbable to the probable, Leontes argues...

...things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives airy-nothing A local habitation and name. Such tricks hath strong imagination That, if...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! A Midsummer Night's Dream (v:i:4~zz) I ft I CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xv...

...fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, vi 4) Again, Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! (vi 1 8) With which we might compare: And the dire thought of his committed evil...

...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. HIPPOLYTA. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THESEUS. More strange than true : I never may believe These...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! HIPPOLYTA. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured...