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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... Kehler. A MIDS UMMER NIGHT'S DREAM CRITICAL ESSAYS EDITED BY DOROTHEA KEI-ILER g Roufledge E TaylorfikFrancis Group New York London First paperback edition published in 2001 by Routledge 29 West A Midsummer Night's Dream.
... Kehler. A MIDS UMMER NIGHT'S DREAM CRITICAL ESSAYS EDITED BY DOROTHEA KEI-ILER g Roufledge E TaylorfikFrancis Group New York London First paperback edition published in 2001 by Routledge 29 West A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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... London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint oft/9e Ylzylor 65“ Francis Group. Copyright © 1998 by Dorothea Kehler Previously published in hardback as vol. 1900 in the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. All rights reserved. No art ...
... London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint oft/9e Ylzylor 65“ Francis Group. Copyright © 1998 by Dorothea Kehler Previously published in hardback as vol. 1900 in the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. All rights reserved. No art ...
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... London, writes two years after the American colonies declared their independence and little more than a decade before the onset of the French Revolution may in part account for his views. Not until the mid-nineteenth century——in the ...
... London, writes two years after the American colonies declared their independence and little more than a decade before the onset of the French Revolution may in part account for his views. Not until the mid-nineteenth century——in the ...
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... London theaters. Thereafter, with one exception, it remained a separate piece until 1840. Not until the twentieth century was Dream, originally performed under the most circumscribed theatrical conditions, once again trusted to speak ...
... London theaters. Thereafter, with one exception, it remained a separate piece until 1840. Not until the twentieth century was Dream, originally performed under the most circumscribed theatrical conditions, once again trusted to speak ...
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