Congratulations to our Middle School thespians for their recent performance of A Midsummernight Camp's Dream. Their adaptation of the Shakespeare classic was witty and memorable, dazzling with its set-design and costumes. Congratulations to the actors and to Director Marisa Cavin!
Theater, Music Plays, Improv and all other forms of « acting » are remarkable experiences to learn & grow through imagination and stories. Well done Marisa & American Section
Austin Tichenor has a good, brief article on Shakespeare's repurposing of sources. He writes:
"Charlotte Artese, author of Shakespeare and the Folktale, explained on the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimitedpodcast that Shakespeare frequently refers to things that have little meaning to us now but would have been familiar to his audience then. Among her many examples, Artese cites Ophelia’s odd-seeming non-sequitur “They say the owl is a baker’s daughter” from her mad scene in Hamlet as referring to a folktale in which Jesus turns a baker’s daughter into an owl for giving him a meager portion of bread..."
And as I've argued before, the tale of the baker's daughter changed to an owl might best be considered as a repurposing/transformation of the gospel tale about the rich man and the beggar Lazarus - which is referred to by the ghost regarding his "lazar-like" skin after poisoning - and also referred to by Horatio in 5.2 as a paraphrase from the requiem Mass about Lazarus welcomed into heaven: "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
So Shakespeare transforms and repurposes sources that had already represented transformations of earlier sources.
In Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus speaks of a similar repurposing:
"And as 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."
Tichenor begins with the example of Ovid's Metamorphoses:
It was only within the last two years that I realized Gertrude drinking from the cup poisoned by Hamlet's uncle/stepfather might be a transformation from the Metamorphoses of King Aegeus knocking from the hand of his son the cup that had been poisoned by his stepmother, Medea.
There are many commonly cited allusions in Shakespeare, but perhaps others still remaining to be noticed...
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Prompted by Mary Zimmerman's translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES, I explore how Shakespeare transformed his various sources into celebrations of theatricality for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Had a lovely interview with Jack Gilligan on Dublin City FM about Shakespeare and Edward de Vere! To learn more on this subject and hear about my fascinating journey please come to ‘A Rose by Any Other Name’ taking place at Smock Alley from 4th to 9th March!
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