 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...sense of it, and he tangles up the senses while paraphrasing St Paul to express his puzzlement and awe: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was' (4.1.208-11). Human senses and powers collapse under the effort to report the experience that he recalls.... | |
 | Wes Folkerth - Drama - 2002 - 168 pages
...is most evident from the remarks he makes upon waking from his dream, when he declares in amazement '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 perceptual confusion indicated in the speech is an unintentional effect of the confusion... | |
 | Frank Barrie - Acting - 2003 - 136 pages
...l was and methought l had - but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought l had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. l will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. lt shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2003 - 390 pages
...1960). 18 Cf. Bottom's even more thorough confusion of the senses in his celebrated Pauline parody: '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). (See also my 'John Hart and Bottom "goes but to see a noise"' (forthcoming)). 19 'While... | |
 | Edward F. Pace-Schott - Medical - 2003 - 378 pages
...definition, being made available only as the individual dreamer desires. In the words of Shakespeare, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (Shakespeare 1595/ 1986). When we gather to study dreams, we each bring to the table our personal definitions.... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.199-207). This is the joke of a decisively secular dramatist, a writer who deftly turned the dream... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...account of the experience: I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.205-6,211-14) Bottom's speech, with its misaligning of the senses, is a parody of 1 Corinthians... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...(190-191). This twofold synaesthesia is a trope that first appeared when Bottom woke up from his dream: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (IV.i.209-212), which is a travesty of St. Paul's Epistle I Corinthians ii.10. The prosopopoeias of... | |
 | Edward Alexander Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 238 pages
...experience among the fairies, says, 'l have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (1V.i. 209-10, 214-17). Bottom's lack of awareness about almost anything is comically apparent here,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought 1 was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I was,...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was (IV, i, 104 ft) That is Bottom's great moment, and a daring piece of theatre as we teeter on the brink... | |
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I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. 
