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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... discourses that have linked the play or poem to various ideological concerns. In addition to examining the critical commentary in light of important historical and theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive ...
... discourses that have linked the play or poem to various ideological concerns. In addition to examining the critical commentary in light of important historical and theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive ...
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... discourse; and employs phonic and rhythmic sound variations to make music out of language. The text, which exists in three versions differing primarily in the number of stage directions, draws on many different sources, but the ...
... discourse; and employs phonic and rhythmic sound variations to make music out of language. The text, which exists in three versions differing primarily in the number of stage directions, draws on many different sources, but the ...
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... discourse. Thus, Woman is the missing figure in the social economy of the verbal arts. On all levels of the play, a struggle exists between the patriarchal word and an intrusive feminine voice that corrects, completes, and supplements ...
... discourse. Thus, Woman is the missing figure in the social economy of the verbal arts. On all levels of the play, a struggle exists between the patriarchal word and an intrusive feminine voice that corrects, completes, and supplements ...
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... Dream's erotic discourse and physical desire. Whereas the ritualistic language of love presents the would-be lover with a limited number of roles, all of which express desire in economic A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 3 5.
... Dream's erotic discourse and physical desire. Whereas the ritualistic language of love presents the would-be lover with a limited number of roles, all of which express desire in economic A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 3 5.
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