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- Title
ARTHUR BROOKE AND THE LION AMONG LADIES IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
- Authors
Velz, John W.
- Abstract
The article reports that a figurative allusion to a lion among young ladies in Arthur Brooke's "Romeus and Juliet," provides a suggestive background to the passages in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which the effect of Snug's role as the lion in "Pyramus," and "Thisby," is discussed by the mechanicals. The generally accepted background to Shakespeare's three allusions to ladies' fear of a lion among them in a room is the plan at a royal christening in 1594 at the Scottish court to have a chariot drawn in by a lion given up as too frightening, and perhaps dangerous.
- Subjects
BROOKE, Arthur; SACRAMENTS; TERMS &; phrases; ALLUSIONS; LITERARY style; BAPTISM
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-1-47