 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 pages
...performances, with the words 'This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard', she is calmly rebuked by Theseus: 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, not theirs. THESEUS: If we imagine no worse of them than... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...world that art creates, with dream (II.ii.549); and Theseus says the play as a whole is a dream — "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (The Dream, Vi208-209). Both figures in dreams and people in a play are shadows. Macbeth says, Life's but... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1995 - 424 pages
...seems at odds with her earlier rebuke to Theseus for his lack of imagination. This time he rebukes her: ‘The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them.' Even after this the interruptions persist, to the point where Starveling, with forgivable irritation,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...substitutes the generosity of the aristocratic audience for the deficiencies of the players, recognizing that "the best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5.1.211). But despite Theseus' intentions, he and the other members of the court audience are more... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...seems at odds with her earlier rebuke to Theseus for his lack of imagination. This time he rebukes her: ‘The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them.' Even after this the interruptions persist, to the point where Starveling, with forgivable irritation,... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...the spectators gives judgement on the play: H¿ppO1Jta. 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. Hzppolyta. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. (Vi.207—lO) Within the sheer comic moment... | |
 | George Steiner - 1996 - 394 pages
...understand his thanks?). But it is a prose shot through with the cadence of his natural poetic style: "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them." The fun of Love's Labour's Lost arises in part from Armado's fantastical prose. He speaks "not like a man... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 pages
...registers Puck's use of "shadows" when he says of the mechanicals' acting in PyramusandThisbe, that "The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them" (5.1.208-09). The ducal statement itself is, however, belied on two counts: on the one hand, the rehearsal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...wilful to hear without warning. HIPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuffthat e'er I heard. THESEUS. Tjie 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. THESEUS. If we imagine no worse of them... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 256 pages
...is still on stage and is listening to her, frozen in humble distress' (Independent, 13 April 1989). THESEUS The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no 205 worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA It must be your imagination then, and not theirs. THESEUS... | |
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The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. 
