The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context.

From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Conlan, J.P. | Copyright information

WELL OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO, E. R. Curtius demonstrated that the literary arts of the late Middle Ages emerged from the persuasive branch of the trivium. (1) Since that time, however, few scholars have explored the Elizabethan court comedy as an exemplary genre designed to convince the monarch to adopt a specific course of domestic policy. Instead, the court comedy has been treated as an amalgam of masque and moral interlude to be interpreted as an imprecise roman a clef subject to e...

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