 | Ralph Yarrow - 1997 - 94 sider
...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... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 sider
...thematic dialogue of 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. While a successful production depends... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 sider
...theatrics, and yet the ridicule is in a generous spirit. As Theseus says of all such performances, "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them." The "silly stuff" they are watching is not unlike the silly stuff we ourselves perform when under the influence... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 sider
...Theseus himself blends all such imaginations with life. Poetry is to him thus purely fanciful : The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them. (vi 214) Set midway between the two kings Bottom and Oberon, himself a mightier king than they, he... | |
 | John Sallis - 2002 - 144 sider
...introduction of Spiel into his This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard [,] (Vi.207) Theseus responds: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. (VUo8-U19) Schlegel's translation introduces Spiel, corresponding to nothing in Shakespeare's English... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 sider
...shadow, And to your shadow will I make true love. [The Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV.ii.124-26] (14) The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst Are no worse, if imagination amend them. [A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vi 214-16] (15) That spirit best pleases that doth least know how; Where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 sider
...wilful to hear without warning. HIPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuff that e'er I heard. THESEUS. The BOTTOM. If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine: — QUINCE. О monstrous! О strange! HIPPOLYTA. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. THESEUS. If we imagine no worse of them... | |
 | Alan C. Dessen - 2002 - 284 sider
...were included in the printed program, one of them the Theseus Hippolyta exchange that includes "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5.1.211 12), but this speech was omitted by Dennis Bigelow (OSF 1979). In her King Lear (Young Vic... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 260 sider
...gives an answer which, in the light of his previous remarks, comes as something of a surprise: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. (v, i, 208-11) So whatever function and status the imagination may have in life outside the theatre,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 322 sider
...professionals actually did and said in their rehearsals and productions, and Theseus' genial comment, 'The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them',4 shows a nice assessment on Shakespeare's part of the relativity of the best professional playing... | |
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The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. 
