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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... Peter Brook's Titus Andronicus) in 1955), and even interviews with directors and/or actors. Editors have also included photographs from productions around the World to help readers see and further appreciate the way a Shakespearean play ...
... Peter Brook's Titus Andronicus) in 1955), and even interviews with directors and/or actors. Editors have also included photographs from productions around the World to help readers see and further appreciate the way a Shakespearean play ...
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... , and my colleagues Clare Colquitt and Peter C. Herman. Thanks to Marion McClinton for taking the time to speak to me at length about his production. Above all 1 want to acknowledge the contributors of new Acknowledgments.
... , and my colleagues Clare Colquitt and Peter C. Herman. Thanks to Marion McClinton for taking the time to speak to me at length about his production. Above all 1 want to acknowledge the contributors of new Acknowledgments.
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... Peter Holland's Introduction to the Oxford edition (1995). In the appendix, “Shakespeare's Revisions of Act 5,” Holland considers the interpretive implications of Egeus's speaking Philostrate's Q1 lines. In her “Textual Theory, Literary ...
... Peter Holland's Introduction to the Oxford edition (1995). In the appendix, “Shakespeare's Revisions of Act 5,” Holland considers the interpretive implications of Egeus's speaking Philostrate's Q1 lines. In her “Textual Theory, Literary ...
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... Peter Holland (1995) surveys accepted and proposed sources at length, including Renaissance notions about dreams and the allusions to dreams in Elizabethan plays. Two contributions to this volume employ new approaches to source study ...
... Peter Holland (1995) surveys accepted and proposed sources at length, including Renaissance notions about dreams and the allusions to dreams in Elizabethan plays. Two contributions to this volume employ new approaches to source study ...
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... Peter Holland (1995) discusses the play's structure under the heading Shapes, first by invoking roledoubling as an indicator of structure, then by exploring other facets of Dream through its performance history. Susan Baker's essay for ...
... Peter Holland (1995) discusses the play's structure under the heading Shapes, first by invoking roledoubling as an indicator of structure, then by exploring other facets of Dream through its performance history. Susan Baker's essay for ...
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