Essays Tagged: "robin goodfellow"

Midsummer Nights Dream

An Essay on William Shakespear's A Midsummer Night's DreamThe role and character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is not only entertaining but quite useful.William Sh ... ne can't help but be attracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the name Robin Goodfellow. The audience can only see this 'Robin Goodfellow' side of Puck when he is trying t ...

(6 pages) 130 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream

"A midsummer Nights dream" book report

love and furthermore that their love is insincere. Evidently, this is because of the mischief that Robin Goodfellow brings to the characters with a magic cowslip flower. The love that Lysander has fo ... ture is the deceptive relationship between Lysander and Helena at the end of the story. Once again, Robin makes mischief with the cowslip. This time he puts it over Lysander's eyes, who then awakes wi ...

(2 pages) 22 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream

Critique on "A Midsummer nights dream."

lso enjoyed that the plot was not as complex and was easy to understand.The character 'Puck' (a.k.a Robin Goodfellow) provided the comic relief that I thought was necessary to make the movie more enjo ...

(1 pages) 31 0 1.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

“Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body.

s characterized as that of a comedic character. "…Are you that shrewd knavish sprite/ Called Robin Goodfellow. Are you not he/ that frightens the maidens of the villagery" (15)? By the use of f ...

(4 pages) 1176 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Conclusions of Lady Audley's Secret and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Was Dickens Thinking of Using Braddon's Solution?

iberately designed to pump up the weekly sales of her common-law husband John Maxwell's short-lived Robin Goodfellow, was one of a number of 1860s Sensation Novels inspired by the success of Collins's ...

(5 pages) 1268 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analysis of Puck from Shakespear's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Form of a Letter to a Play Director

"And those things do best please meThat befall preposterously"Dear Director,Above is a description Robin Goodfellow gave of himself. It sums up perfectly that which pleases the puck more than anythin ... ove of one of its' inhabitants. Then he brought back a mortal and altered the world of the fairies. Robin draws us into illusion, shows us the world of fantasy and then, in his final speech, gently de ...

(4 pages) 13 0 3.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream