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Good articlePhilostrate has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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October 14, 2007Good article nomineeListed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the character of Philostrate, the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship?

Introduction

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"Shakespeare may have used this character to poke fun at Edmund Tilney, the Master of Revels in London at the time. In early performances of the play, the actor who played his character probably also played the part of Egeus, causing textual confusion in one scene in Act five where both characters are present."

I wonder, while I have no problem with this information in the body of the article, is it really appropriate to put details of such a speculative nature right up there in the introduction? Calgary 05:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it could just say that he was poking fun at play censorship in general at the time. That isn't much of a stretch at all to most scholars. The double-role info is anything but speculative. All scholars believe this, as far as I've seen. Wrad 13:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to copy over the last sentence. Calgary 18:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To the GA reviewer

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This article is pretty short, but after scouring several books and scholarly articles, I'm confident that it covers all major issues (as well as a few more minor ones). Wrad 06:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From the GA reviewer

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Hello! Another nice article on a minor Shakespearean character! There are just a few small things that I think would improve this article and give it that extra patina of professionalism.

  • Links to fix:
Removed link, it was off. The poem is about Comus, but the article doesn't talk about Phil's play. Wrad 05:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Theseus (shouldn't this link to the Shakespearen character?)
That would be best, but Theseus has no page solely for a Shakespeare character, the current link is the best we have. Wrad 05:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then I would either red-link it like this (Theseus or delink it altogether. The current link is too confusing. Awadewit | talk 05:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Made the link more specific. Wrad 05:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. Wrad 05:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As always, let me know if you have questions and when you want me to re-review the article. Awadewit | talk 04:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Egeus

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'There is only one scene in Act V where both Egeus and Philostrate are present, and in this scene Egeus' character would have taken all of Philostrate's lines as his own.'

I am sure it would have been the atcor playing Puck who played this role,seeing as Theseus often doubled as Oberon and Hippolyta as Titania. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.240.59.28 (talk) 19:52, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]