A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1500 words long; please include a word count, APA Format
Each topic will begin with an assertion, which will sometimes be further explained in a following sentence or two. You will provide an extended argument either supporting that assertion or challenging it. Your argument must include (a) textual evidence in favor of the thesis you put forward, (b) one or two objections which an opponent might make to your claims, and (c) either or both of (c1) objections you make to the opponent’s position or (c2) rebuttals of the opponent’s objections. End the paper with a brief summary of the outcome of this back-and-forth. An excellent essay will cover all these points, but not necessarily in a ‘by-the-numbers’ fashion; it will be concise and elegantly structured, and it will briefly consider what implications the stand taken on the particular point in the question has for the overall interpretation of the work in question. Topic: The love potion in Midsummer Night’s Dream (administered to Lysander, Demetrius, and Titania) has a vastly different role in the plot of the play than the love potion in Tristan and Iseut, and these differences reflect the very different conceptions of love held by Shakespeare and by the author of Tristan and Iseut BOOK: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series). Arden. ISBN 978-1903436608 Joseph Bédier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseut. Tr. Edward J. Gallagher. Hackett. ISBN: 978-1-60384-900-5. Each topic will begin with an assertion, which will sometimes be further explained in a following sentence or two. You will provide an extended argument either supporting that assertion or challenging it.
Your argument must include
(a) textual evidence in favor of the thesis you put forward, (b) one or two objections which an opponent might make to your claims, and (c) either or both of
(c1) objections you make to the opponent’s position or
(c2) rebuttals of the opponent’s objections. End the paper with a brief summary of the outcome of this back-and-forth. An excellent essay will cover all these points, but not necessarily in a ‘by-the-numbers’ fashion; it will be concise and elegantly structured, and it will briefly consider what impli- cations the stand taken on the particular point in the question has for the overall inter- pretation of the work in question.
