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Shaping Sense

The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Such shaping fantasies”: Shakespeare’s Paramaterial Phantasy

      portion of my last post’s title comes from the fifth act of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream where Hippolyta and Theseus discuss the strange alterations of love they have just witnessed in the forest. Hippolyta declares the speeches delivered by the lovers as “strange,” prompting The Duke’s declaration of the vulnerability […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, William Shakespeare Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, early modern, epistemology, history of the senses, imagination, Phantasy, senses, Shakespeare

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