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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... Kott A Midsummer Night's Dream: “Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought Shall Go Ill” Shirley Nelson Garner “I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out”: Deference and Accommodation in A Midsummer Night's Dream Theodore B. Leinwand Bottom's Up ...
... Kott A Midsummer Night's Dream: “Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought Shall Go Ill” Shirley Nelson Garner “I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out”: Deference and Accommodation in A Midsummer Night's Dream Theodore B. Leinwand Bottom's Up ...
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... Kott's 1960s vision of the play as cruelly, even bestially, orgiastic, no doubt it still is. But that prominent reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often ...
... Kott's 1960s vision of the play as cruelly, even bestially, orgiastic, no doubt it still is. But that prominent reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often ...
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... Dream end on a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
... Dream end on a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
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Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under Theme), though without Kott's excesses and, more broadly, anticipates psychological readings. Brandes discems that “Oberon's magic is simply a ...
Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under Theme), though without Kott's excesses and, more broadly, anticipates psychological readings. Brandes discems that “Oberon's magic is simply a ...
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... Kott (1981), in “The Bottom Translation,” a moderated view of Dream unlike the chapter in his 1964 Shakespeare Our Contemporary (see below under Theme) explicates the play's dualism, its juxtaposing of Paul with Apuleius, of ...
... Kott (1981), in “The Bottom Translation,” a moderated view of Dream unlike the chapter in his 1964 Shakespeare Our Contemporary (see below under Theme) explicates the play's dualism, its juxtaposing of Paul with Apuleius, of ...
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