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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... ) eschews questions of power. In a heuristic essay he suggests that performance offers a key to Shakespeare's structure, which is above all dramatic-—“constructed out of hundreds of small units or sections which are to 20 Dorothea Kehler.
... ) eschews questions of power. In a heuristic essay he suggests that performance offers a key to Shakespeare's structure, which is above all dramatic-—“constructed out of hundreds of small units or sections which are to 20 Dorothea Kehler.
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... dramatic and poetical sense” (101). Somewhat more—or less —broadly, Rene Girard (1979) attends to the animal imagery, violence, and ambiguous language, discovering a surface text (Theseus's) and a subtext (Hippolyta's). He concludes ...
... dramatic and poetical sense” (101). Somewhat more—or less —broadly, Rene Girard (1979) attends to the animal imagery, violence, and ambiguous language, discovering a surface text (Theseus's) and a subtext (Hippolyta's). He concludes ...
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... their audience, whose response they fear will be either excessive or inadequate, and a masterpiece like Dream— “Shakespeare's closest approximation to a 'Defense of Dramatic Poesy' in A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 29.
... their audience, whose response they fear will be either excessive or inadequate, and a masterpiece like Dream— “Shakespeare's closest approximation to a 'Defense of Dramatic Poesy' in A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 29.
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Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. “Shakespeare's closest approximation to a 'Defense of Dramatic Poesy' in general” (129). Among the most important, and most controversial, works on Dream is Jan Kott's chapter from Shakespeare Our ...
Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. “Shakespeare's closest approximation to a 'Defense of Dramatic Poesy' in general” (129). Among the most important, and most controversial, works on Dream is Jan Kott's chapter from Shakespeare Our ...
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... dramatic illusion by blurring the boundaries between the natural and supernatural, and by depicting Oberon as “specializing in the arts of illusion as befits an illusion” (124). Oberon is “a kind of interior dramatist,” (130) ...
... dramatic illusion by blurring the boundaries between the natural and supernatural, and by depicting Oberon as “specializing in the arts of illusion as befits an illusion” (124). Oberon is “a kind of interior dramatist,” (130) ...
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