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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in the late 16th century. The play follows the misadventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and a fairy king and queen as they navigate the complexities of love and the supernatural.
At the center of the play is the relationship between the four young lovers: Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. Hermia is betrothed to Demetrius, but she is in love with Lysander. Helena, who is in love with Demetrius, is rejected by him in favor of Hermia. This love quadrangle is further complicated by the interference of the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, who use magic to manipulate the emotions and actions of the humans.
One of the main themes of the play is the power of love and its ability to bring about both joy and suffering. The love between the four young lovers is intense and all-consuming, leading them to act irrationally and make poor decisions. The fairy magic only exacerbates this, as it causes the characters to fall in and out of love with each other at the whims of Oberon and Titania.
Another theme is the idea of illusion and the dangers of being too easily swayed by appearances. The fairy magic causes the characters to see things that are not really there, leading them to make mistaken assumptions about each other. This is exemplified by the character of Bottom, who is transformed into an ass and is not recognized by his fellow actors.
In addition to the themes of love and illusion, the play also explores the concept of social hierarchy and the expectations placed on individuals based on their class and status. Hermia, for example, is pressured by her father and the Duke of Athens to marry Demetrius, even though she does not love him. The fairy characters also have their own hierarchy, with Titania and Oberon constantly vying for power and control.
Overall, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a delightful and humorous exploration of love, illusion, and social expectations. Its timeless themes and well-developed characters make it a classic work of literature that continues to be enjoyed by readers and audiences today.
Marie Du Deffand
After she became blind in the 1750s, she asked Judy Chicago American, b. Madame du Deffand, young and beautiful, is said by Horace Walpole to have been for a short time the mistress of the regent, the duke of Orleans Walpole to Gray, January 25, 1766. She gathered around her, however, a brilliant intellectual circle, to which she gave the tone, who met for common amusement, and served to dispel the ennui by which she was constantly attacked. The latter part of her life was only the shadow of what it had been, her ennui, selfishness, and ill-temper repelling even her most attached friends. Lewis Collection of Marie du Deffand contains correspondence and other papers created, owned by, or relating to Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand 1697-1780 , a friend and correspondent of the English author Horace Walpole.
She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him… In a dispute, into which she easily falls, she is very warm, and yet scarce ever in the wrong. Lettres et papiers de famille recueillis, présentés et annotés par Pierre E. Joseph, which after her affliction she made her home. The abbess, alarmed at the freedom of her views, arranged that Massillon should visit and reason with her, but he accomplished nothing. She had taken up her abode in 1747 in apartments in the convent of St Joseph in the rue St Dominique, which had a separate entrance from the street. Educated in a convent, she early distinguished herself for a tone of raillery on religious subjects. With the encyclopaedists she was never in sympathy, and appears to have tolerated them only for his sake.
She died on the 23rd of September 1780, leaving her dog To p ton to the care of Walpole, who was also entrusted with her papers. She was 68 at the time. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. She wished to appeal to the heart, and she appealed only to the head. Deffand, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du 1697—1780 French patron of fashion and literature and salonnière. Born Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond in 1697; died in 1780; dau. The papers in the W.
The eloquent Massillon attempted to win her to orthodoxy. Educated at a convent in Paris, she showed, along with great intelligence, a sceptical and cynical turn of mind. S Anthology Letter from Horace Walpole to Thomas Gray Mme de Genlis, Salon de Mme du Deffand. Marie du Deffand spent her final years surrounded by a smaller yet devoted group of friends; she died in Paris in 1780. She lived out her life frankly, boldly, without self-deception or imposition. Madame du Deffand Marie de Vichy-Chamrond 1697-1780. Name variations: Madame du Deffand; Marquise du Deffand; Marie de Vichy-Chamrond.
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. The greater portion of Madame du Deffand's early life was passed at the court of the brilliant Duchess du Maine, whose friendship she enjoyed. Paris: Michel Lévy frères , 1866. The union proved an unhappy one, and resulted in a separation as early as 1722. He also wrote a weekly column in El País. Of her innumerable witty sayings the best known is her remark on the Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is the most difficult. She received diplomats from all over Europe: baron Gleichen, Gustaf Philip Creutz, Johan Bernstorff the Danish extraordinary envoy to Paris from 1744 to 1751 , marquis Caraccioli the Neapolitan ambassador from 1771 to 1781 , and Count Ulrik Scheffer the Swedish minister to Paris from 1744 to 1751.
Brilliant, witty, sceptical, and sarcastic, she drew around her the most distinguished men and women of her time. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. Honoré Champion, 2012 , p. Madame du Deffand agreed, but failed to find satisfaction in her anxious analysis; she envied believers in God, and longed for illusions, yet allowed herself none. There she attracted political leaders from across Europe, entertaining such luminaries as Voltaire, 1694-1778 , Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755 , Marguerite-Jeanne, baronne de Staal 1684-1750 , Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717-1783 , and Hénault. On her death, she left her dog, Tonton, to the care of Walpole, who also was entrusted with her papers.
V, Sociabilités et esthétique de la marge Paris: Éd. Ignoring her blindness, she lived her life as gayly as she could in visiting, feasting, opera-going, and letter-writing. In 1997 Marías won the Nelly Sachs Prize. The reorganization provided the opportunity to arrange and describe all the correspondence and writings by author, and for the staff to research the authors of previously unidentified manuscript fragments of verse and prose. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited woman with a sharp tongue. In 1721 began her friendship with Voltaire, but their regular correspondence dates only from 1736. She was born into a noble family, schooled at a convent, and shortly thereafter married.
Richard, éditions Michel de Maule, Paris, 2007. In 1718, following an education received at the Benedictine convent of Madeleine de Traisnel, in Paris, she married Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Du Deffand, marquis de La Lande. Walpole refused at first to acknowledge the closeness of their intimacy from an exaggerated fear of the ridicule attaching to her age, but he paid several visits to Paris expressly for the purpose of enjoying her society, and maintained a close and most interesting correspondence with her for fifteen years. . Madame du Deffand returned many of Walpole's letters at his request, and subsequently destroyed those which she received from him. She would sever all ties with her husband 10 years later. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour.
