...seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Theseus expresses the rationalistic mistrust of imagination which was 1 Comedy of...

...forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to air)1 nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ( Vi)10 True enough, Elizabethan aestheticians were fond of invoking familiar commonplaces...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing litter, supposed a bear! (V, i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! One obvious function of this speech is to vent scepticism — not just the character's,...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagination some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! She dying, as it must be so maintained,...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. (Enter Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and...

...Midsummer-Night's Dream (Act V): The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: . . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Thus, our mental images are far from being passive residents in our mind. They actively...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear. (5.1.1-22) Theseus's categorical view is strikingly paradigmatic: fancy apprehends, reason comprehends....

...darker tragedy. At the end of the play, Theseus disparages imagination's power to metamorphose reality: Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear! (5.ll 8-22) Theseus engages in his own magisterial act of meiosis, denying the reciprocity involved...

...bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos 'da bear! (continued) Lesson 35: Shakespeare's Message in A Midsummer Nights Dream 5. In the...