Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2020
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 73
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Continental Shakespeare
- The Stranger at the Door: Belonging in Shakespeare’s Ephesus
- City Origins, Lost Identities and Print Errors in The Comedy of Errors
- The Circulation of Youthful Energy on the Early Modern London Stage: Migration, Intertheatricality and ‘Growing to Common Players’
- In Conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: Social Insanity and its Taming Schools in 1&2 Honest Whore
- Hearing Voices: Signal Versus Urban Noise in Coriolanus and Augustine’s Confessions
- Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible
- Before We Sleep: Macbeth and the Curtain Lecture
- ‘The Story Shall be Changed’: Antique Fables and Agency in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Lawful Magic: New Worlds of Precedent in Mabo and The Winter’s Tale
- ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined’: Advice to Actors and the Priorities of Shakespearian Scholarship
- ‘What Country, Friends, is This?’: Tim Supple’s Twelfth Night Revisited
- Through a Glass Darkly: Sophie Okonedo’s Margaret as Racial Other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
- ‘Who’s There?’ Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008–2018)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2019
- Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2018
- The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 73
- Index
Summary
This essay explores the role of the story – allusion, paradigm, precedent and narrative structure – as an agent of change in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With a particular focus on women, this essay analyses the pivotal role that story telling provides in Shakespeare’s construction of both opportunity and imagination.
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- Shakespeare Survey 73Shakespeare and the City, pp. 119 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020