...love keep little company together nowadays. (3-1.137-9) Finally, Theseus compares lovers with madmen: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. (5.1.4-8) Love cannot be directed by reason, for it is blind; but it...

...coloni Pallida, defunctasque vident migrare figuras. Claudius 35 ... I never may believe These antic fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. Shakespeare* 6 "Ah, who will come to break their swords? Who will stanch my brothers blood and call...

...invitation for a Sunday night supper. "Shortest night of the year. St. John's night." "Also Midsummer Night. 'Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such...ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the fjoet are of imagination all compact.' " "Theseus is a fine one to talk," I respond, showing off my...

...this never more unforgettably expressed than in Theseus's ostensibly so dismissive lines in Act v: ... I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as...

...of (5.1.1 ). Theseus responds with a now-famous speech: More strange than true. I never may beiieve These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Arc of imagination all compact. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's...

...fables" and "fairy toys" that are not to be believed. They are the productions of rather strange brains: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. (5.1.4-8) The poet appears in rather dubious company. We might, of...

...believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool...compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; 10 That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's...

...fácilmente se toma a una mata por un oso.'7 17. The. More strange than true. I never may believe /This antique fables, nor these fairy toys. / Lovers and...reason ever comprehends. / The lunatic, the lover, and tne poet / Are of imagination all compact: / One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; / That is...

...exper1enced in the night forest. Theseus' speech points out how internal conditions can distort perception: I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. (5.1.2-6) Though to Theseus 'cool reason' is a safe measure for judging and dismissing the lovers'...

...Freud uses indirectly in his theory of the influence of early infant experiences on later adult life. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: . . . Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1.2) And Goethe (1749-1832):...