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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... Shakespeare's plays as well as land~ mark productions in English. Consisting of more than reviews of specific ... Shakespeare Criticism series strives to give readers a balanced, representative collection of the best that has been ...
... Shakespeare's plays as well as land~ mark productions in English. Consisting of more than reviews of specific ... Shakespeare Criticism series strives to give readers a balanced, representative collection of the best that has been ...
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... Shakespeare bibliographies compiled by Linda Woodbridge (1988), Joseph Rosenblum (1992), and Larry Champion (1993); Shakespeare Quarterly's annual World Shakespeare Bibliography; and Gale Publishing's Shakespearean Criticism volumes on ...
... Shakespeare bibliographies compiled by Linda Woodbridge (1988), Joseph Rosenblum (1992), and Larry Champion (1993); Shakespeare Quarterly's annual World Shakespeare Bibliography; and Gale Publishing's Shakespearean Criticism volumes on ...
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... Shakespeare's Tempest, his Midsummer nights Dream, and Ben. Johnsons Masque of Witches to be defended. Charles Gildon, an early eighteenth-century commentator, rescued Shakespeare for neo-classicism by commending his “beautiful ...
... Shakespeare's Tempest, his Midsummer nights Dream, and Ben. Johnsons Masque of Witches to be defended. Charles Gildon, an early eighteenth-century commentator, rescued Shakespeare for neo-classicism by commending his “beautiful ...
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... Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to live in London ... Shakespeare's German translator, the Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple ...
... Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to live in London ... Shakespeare's German translator, the Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple ...
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... Shakespeare (1872), are largely derivative. Hudson does perceive, however, that Shakespeare's lightness of characterization is appropriate if, like Coleridge, we understand Dream as a dream. Edward Dowden (1881), an Irish critic, is ...
... Shakespeare (1872), are largely derivative. Hudson does perceive, however, that Shakespeare's lightness of characterization is appropriate if, like Coleridge, we understand Dream as a dream. Edward Dowden (1881), an Irish critic, is ...
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