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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... ideological concerns. In addition to examining the critical commentary in light of important historical and theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive bibliographic essay that cites and evaluates significant critical ...
... ideological concerns. In addition to examining the critical commentary in light of important historical and theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive bibliographic essay that cites and evaluates significant critical ...
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... ideological resonances. To examine the elisions and distortions generated by the evoking/quoting of sources is to unexpectedly align— at least parodically—the tropics of allusion and translation with the “rude” dramaturgy of the ...
... ideological resonances. To examine the elisions and distortions generated by the evoking/quoting of sources is to unexpectedly align— at least parodically—the tropics of allusion and translation with the “rude” dramaturgy of the ...
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... ideological, our perceptions of time and space being inseparable from our values, “chronotopes offer a (reasonably) systematic approach to observing the interanimations of form, historicity, and ideology.” Her essay includes a ...
... ideological, our perceptions of time and space being inseparable from our values, “chronotopes offer a (reasonably) systematic approach to observing the interanimations of form, historicity, and ideology.” Her essay includes a ...
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... ideology to the play or may unself-consciously reflect their times. E.K. Chambers (1905), an example of the latter, distances himself from early nineteenth-century Romanticism and looks to fin de siécle Symbolism. He grants that ...
... ideology to the play or may unself-consciously reflect their times. E.K. Chambers (1905), an example of the latter, distances himself from early nineteenth-century Romanticism and looks to fin de siécle Symbolism. He grants that ...
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... ideology. In accordance with the Elizabethan notion that held the mind to be a microcosm of the great chain of being, Freedman invokes Freud and Lacan to read the playtext's psychological and ideological metaphors of authority as ...
... ideology. In accordance with the Elizabethan notion that held the mind to be a microcosm of the great chain of being, Freedman invokes Freud and Lacan to read the playtext's psychological and ideological metaphors of authority as ...
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