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As exhibit one, let us examine the preface to Bottom: on Shakespeare. The most crucial passage in all of Shakespeare for Zukofsky may be Bottom’s soliloquy after his liaisons with Titania: God’s my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep? –I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
(Corinthians 2:9) Instead, Bottom matches senses with the wrong verbs, such as "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen" (IV.i.214-215). Other than the fact that he is a...
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Just as Bottom’s translation is the event in A Midsummer Night’s Dream that links the fairies with the humans, the magical with the natural, the allegorical with the verisimilar, the fictive with the real, it is also the bridge between Richard III and Falstaff in terms of Shakespeare’s career with stigma, in terms of his involvement with ...
Seeing a chance to play mischief, he waits until Bottom exits and changes his head into a donkey’s; when Bottom returns, the others fly in fear, pushed on by Puck. Bottom stolidly believes that they are playing a practical joke on him, not even noticing his transformation.
‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ opens a quite stunning soliloquy by the young Richard, Duke of Gloucester in the opening line of Shakespeare’s Richard III play. This line ranks among the most famous and most quoted opening lines of any Shakespeare play, alongside such openings as ‘When shall we three meet again/In thunder ...
