A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. |
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... Athenian lovers, and regarded the entire play as a source of delight. An important English literary and theater critic, William Hazlitt (1817), liked the play no less but found that “when acted, [A Midsummer Night's Dream] is converted ...
... Athenian lovers, and regarded the entire play as a source of delight. An important English literary and theater critic, William Hazlitt (1817), liked the play no less but found that “when acted, [A Midsummer Night's Dream] is converted ...
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... Athenian court spectators, mere tradesmen turning their hard hands to art is a fomi of disorder much like Hemiia's, Titania's, or the pelting river's rebellions. The response of modern critics to Bottom and the mechanicals is still a ...
... Athenian court spectators, mere tradesmen turning their hard hands to art is a fomi of disorder much like Hemiia's, Titania's, or the pelting river's rebellions. The response of modern critics to Bottom and the mechanicals is still a ...
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