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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... Renaissance worlds in a historical synesthesia much like the bodily amalgam Bottom makes of I Corinthians 2:9. Geoffrey Bullough (1957) remains the basic repository of source materials. Bullough examines George Pettie's The Petite ...
... Renaissance worlds in a historical synesthesia much like the bodily amalgam Bottom makes of I Corinthians 2:9. Geoffrey Bullough (1957) remains the basic repository of source materials. Bullough examines George Pettie's The Petite ...
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... Renaissance notions about dreams and the allusions to dreams in 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 ...
... Renaissance notions about dreams and the allusions to dreams in 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 ...
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... Renaissance folklore and the supernatural, Minor White Latham (1930), who devotes a chapter of her study to Robin Goodfellow, credited Shakespeare with having been the first writer to portray fairies as virtuous and nonthreatening. In ...
... Renaissance folklore and the supernatural, Minor White Latham (1930), who devotes a chapter of her study to Robin Goodfellow, credited Shakespeare with having been the first writer to portray fairies as virtuous and nonthreatening. In ...
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... Renaissance, Theseus would have represented reason and right rule; his victory over Hippolyta and the Amazons is a victory for hierarchy, marriage, and love based on reason rather than passion. Titania is depicted as a wanton aspect of ...
... Renaissance, Theseus would have represented reason and right rule; his victory over Hippolyta and the Amazons is a victory for hierarchy, marriage, and love based on reason rather than passion. Titania is depicted as a wanton aspect of ...
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... Renaissance belief that “the mundane world [is] only a dim shadow, an insubstantial microcosm of a divine macrocosm” (82). Richard Cody (1969) analyzes the Platonic, Orphic, and pastoral elements in Dream, finding a line of development ...
... Renaissance belief that “the mundane world [is] only a dim shadow, an insubstantial microcosm of a divine macrocosm” (82). Richard Cody (1969) analyzes the Platonic, Orphic, and pastoral elements in Dream, finding a line of development ...
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