TITANIA EXPRESSES A PREFERENCE
Here’s a conundrum as old as time: romantic inclination – a mystery that can’t be solved by objective scrutiny. In fact, in so many cases, objectively scrutinising the inclination only deepens the mystery.
Shakespeare has a character assume the appearance of a donkey in a Midsummer Night's Dream. (Nick Bottom, the weaver). This exchange between them is a good one:
Titania: Mine ear is much enamoured of they note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me,
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.
Bottom: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.
B is completely bemused - it's the most bizarre part of the play. I hope it won't be hell teaching ‘boring, crap Shakespeare’ to teenagers who fail to see how the ideas could possibly relate to them, not realising that they often do.
Here’s a conundrum as old as time: romantic inclination – a mystery that can’t be solved by objective scrutiny. In fact, in so many cases, objectively scrutinising the inclination only deepens the mystery.
Shakespeare has a character assume the appearance of a donkey in a Midsummer Night's Dream. (Nick Bottom, the weaver). This exchange between them is a good one:
Titania: Mine ear is much enamoured of they note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me,
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.
Bottom: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.
B is completely bemused - it's the most bizarre part of the play. I hope it won't be hell teaching ‘boring, crap Shakespeare’ to teenagers who fail to see how the ideas could possibly relate to them, not realising that they often do.
