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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... Elizabethan.” Boas' Theseus, therefore, is “a great Tudor noble” (184), his Helena is no morally weak betrayer but part of “a transparently clumsy device for concentrating the four lovers on a single spot” (185), and the play of Pyramus ...
... Elizabethan.” Boas' Theseus, therefore, is “a great Tudor noble” (184), his Helena is no morally weak betrayer but part of “a transparently clumsy device for concentrating the four lovers on a single spot” (185), and the play of Pyramus ...
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... Elizabethan pre-professional acting companies. Thelma N. Greenfield (1968) finds comparable allusions and ideas in The Praise of Folly and Dream; Shakespeare may have used Erasmus as a source, since in both works the fools at least ...
... Elizabethan pre-professional acting companies. Thelma N. Greenfield (1968) finds comparable allusions and ideas in The Praise of Folly and Dream; Shakespeare may have used Erasmus as a source, since in both works the fools at least ...
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... Elizabethan plays. Two contributions to this volume employ new approaches to source study. Douglas Freake analyzes the play's debts to the Theseus story while rejecting the supposed universality of mythic tales. He notes that C. Kerényi ...
... Elizabethan plays. Two contributions to this volume employ new approaches to source study. Douglas Freake analyzes the play's debts to the Theseus story while rejecting the supposed universality of mythic tales. He notes that C. Kerényi ...
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... Elizabethan court masque she notes that “Shakespeare has absorbed the scenic splendour of the masque, not only in ... Elizabethans went to hear, not see, a play, Hunt's approach seems especially productive. Structure and Formal Design ...
... Elizabethan court masque she notes that “Shakespeare has absorbed the scenic splendour of the masque, not only in ... Elizabethans went to hear, not see, a play, Hunt's approach seems especially productive. Structure and Formal Design ...
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... Elizabethan comedy; he thus uncovers the structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like Rose, she offers a diagramatic analysis ...
... Elizabethan comedy; he thus uncovers the structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like Rose, she offers a diagramatic analysis ...
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