Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare Use of “eyesight”

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most beloved of Shakespeare's comedies. Across the ages, it has been produced in every period style from Elizabethan to hip-hop. Directorial treatments have ranged from honeyed fairylands that even children can view to hard-core, erotic rock noir productions.

The play opens in Athens, ruled by Theseus, who is to wed Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, in four days. At the start of the play, Theseus voices his impatience for his marriage, immediately establishing the disjunction between desire and social dictates. The introduction of Egeus and his daughter ...