 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...characters, so that the direction: exeunt all but Shakespeare and his fellow prompters, sets the scene. 'The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.' (A Midsummer Night's Dream V. 1 .2 1 8) THE INVOCATION OF THE MYTHICAL Whereas we expect heightened... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 pages
...Now is the moon used between the two neighbors. Dem. No remedy, my lord, when walls are so willful to hear without warning. Hip. This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. 210 The. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...generosity of the aristocratic audience for the deficiencies of the players, recognizing that "the best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5.1.211). But despite Theseus' intentions, he and the other members of the court audience are more... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...that art creates, with dream (II.ii.549); and Theseus says the play as a whole is a dream — "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (The Dream, Vi 208-209). Both figures in dreams and people in a play are shadows. Macbeth says, Life's... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 pages
...Theseus registers this meaning when he says of the mechanicals' acting in Pyramus and Thisbe, that 'The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them' (5.1.208-9). The statement itself, however, is belied on two counts: on the one hand, the rehearsal... | |
 | 1995 - 108 pages
...Wall away doth go. (Exit WALL.) HYPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion. (Enter LION and MOONSHINE.) LION. You, ladies, you,... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 pages
...registers Puck's use of "shadows" when he says of the mechanicals' acting in PyramusandThisbe, that "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5.1.208-09). The ducal statement itself is, however, belied on two counts: on the one hand, the rehearsal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...wilful to hear without warning. HIPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuff that e'er I heard. THESEUS. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. THESEUS. If we imagine no worse of them... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...gives judgement on the play: Hippolyta. This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. Theseus. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. Hippolyta. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. (Vi.207-10) Within the sheer comic moment... | |
 | Ralph Yarrow - 1997 - 94 pages
...Dream (Act Vsc. i, 1.211-215) HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA: It must be your imagination then and not theirs. There was, then, an element in the symbolist... | |
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The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. 
