Tag: Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare Week 7: Marlow, Ralegh, Shakespeare ( A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

We covered some really interesting ground in class today through exploring the Pastoral tradition as presented by Marlow (in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and as knocked down by Ralegh (in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”). So these poems are presenting critically the whole idea of the Pastoral world: is it a great…