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linneke20
Registered User
(3/27/04 12:27 pm)
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fairy elements in a midsummer night's dream
hey there,
at the moment i am writing a paper about fairy elements in shakespare's midsummer night's dream. From this point i want to make a start with a jungian interpretation of archetypes in this play. Does anyone have some additional information or tips for me?
with kind regards,
linda
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aka
Greensleeves
(3/27/04 1:42 pm)
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Re: fairy elements in a midsummer night's dream
Diane Purkiss discusses this at length in her book Troublesome
Things.
Good luck!
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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(3/27/04 5:59 pm)
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Re: fairy elements in a midsummer night's dream
I'm not sure if the additional info and tips you're hoping for should be specifically Jungian as well, but didn't the incomparable Katharine Briggs write a book on witchcraft and fairies in Shakespeare's plays? I haven't read the book, but she sure knows her English folklore...
Edited to add that there was a really interesting article in Shakespeare Quarterly somewhere between 1999 and 2001 about Puck and changeling beliefs in Renaissance England. When I get home on Monday, I'll be able to tell you exactly what it is and when it appeared. If you have access to MLA Bibliography online, that's the place to go for recent lit-crit stuff.
Edited by: Veronica Schanoes at: 3/27/04 6:01 pm
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Niniane
Sunyata
Registered User
(3/29/04 11:41 am)
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Re: fairy elements in a midsummer night's dream
Nothing Jungian from my end either, but, if you're researching the
play, you might find Joseph
Ritson helpful. It has a couple of dissertations and a nice
compilation of sources there.
Anita Harris.
Terra Mythogene
www.mythopoetica.com
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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(3/29/04 3:55 pm)
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Re: fairy elements in a midsummer night's dream
Home again, home again, jiggety jig. The article I was thinking
of was "Taken by the Fairies: Fairy Practices and the Production
of Popular Culture in A Midsummer Night's Dream" by
Mary Ellen Lamb. It appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly,
volume 51 (200), number 3, pages 277-312. It was very good indeed.
And it just occurs to me that this might be of interest in the changeling
discussion thread too.
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