Graduation Year
2024
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Tessie Prakas
Reader 2
To Be Determined by the English Department
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Abstract
My thesis is focused on how and why ambiguity/double meanings within the language of Shakespeare plays occurs, and how this can be adapted into a ballet format as there is no verbal component. As well as why this aspect of the plays is so vital to the portrayal of the characters that to remove it would be to severely reduce the impact of the story. It focuses specifically on the plays and ballets of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet, with the NYC Ballet versions of both as a reference.
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Hannah, ""Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be:" Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2024). Scripps Senior Theses. 2365.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2365
