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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... influential historical criticism, the most significant contemporary interpretations, and reviews of the most influential productions. Each volume in the series, devoted to a Shakespearean play or poem (e.g., the sonnets, Venus and ...
... influential historical criticism, the most significant contemporary interpretations, and reviews of the most influential productions. Each volume in the series, devoted to a Shakespearean play or poem (e.g., the sonnets, Venus and ...
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... influenced productions. Shakespearean criticism over the last twenty years or so has usefully been labeled the “Age of Performance.” Readers will find information in this section on major foreign productions of Shakespeare's plays as ...
... influenced productions. Shakespearean criticism over the last twenty years or so has usefully been labeled the “Age of Performance.” Readers will find information in this section on major foreign productions of Shakespeare's plays as ...
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... influence. A number of reference works are especially useful: D. Allen Carroll and Gary Jay Williams's annotated bibliography devoted exclusively to Dream (1986); the Shakespeare bibliographies compiled by Linda Woodbridge (1988) ...
... influence. A number of reference works are especially useful: D. Allen Carroll and Gary Jay Williams's annotated bibliography devoted exclusively to Dream (1986); the Shakespeare bibliographies compiled by Linda Woodbridge (1988) ...
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... influential, made two points about the play. The first, that Shakespeare thought of it as “a dream throughout,” led to further discussion later in the century (see Hudson and Brandes); the second, that Helena is guilty of “ungrateful ...
... influential, made two points about the play. The first, that Shakespeare thought of it as “a dream throughout,” led to further discussion later in the century (see Hudson and Brandes); the second, that Helena is guilty of “ungrateful ...
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... Dream end on a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
... Dream end on a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
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