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Bc. Sára Vdovičíková

Bachelor's thesis

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Popular Theatre Forms of the Long English Restoration

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Popular Theatre Forms of the Long English Restoration
Abstract:
Tato práce se zabývá třemi adaptacemi Shakespearovy komedie Sen noci svatojánské. Jsou to konkrétně The Merry Conceited Humours of Bottom the Weaver (1661), The Fairy Queen: An Opera (1692) a The Comick Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe (1716), které se řadí mezi adaptace anglického restauračního divadla. Adaptace jsou zkoumány z pohledu žánru, historického a společenského kontextu, a tak odrážejí vývoj …more
Abstract:
The focus of this thesis is the analysis of three adaptations of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These are The Merry Conceited Humours of Bottom the Weaver (1661), The Fairy Queen: An Opera (1692) and The Comick Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe (1716), all Restoration theatre adaptations. They are analysed from the point of view of genre and historical and social context, thus mirroring …more
 

Keywords

Anglie sedmnácté století restaurační divadlo Shakespeare adaptace komedie droll opera maska England seventeenth century Restoration theatre adaptation comedy masque
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 20. 5. 2024
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/es2w3/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 13. 6. 2024
  • Supervisor: Mgr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D.
  • Reader: Mgr. Nela Hachlerová

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