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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... moon used between the two neighbors,” in order to determine which text to follow. In the process, they unearthed the sources for its play-within-a-play, from Ovid and from Golding, the network of biblical allusion that had led us to ...
... moon used between the two neighbors,” in order to determine which text to follow. In the process, they unearthed the sources for its play-within-a-play, from Ovid and from Golding, the network of biblical allusion that had led us to ...
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... Moon and the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream” (1955), one of two articles on Dream by Ernest Schanzer, the ways in which the fairies differed from each other and from the mortal characters are catalogued: Puck is malevolent ...
... Moon and the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream” (1955), one of two articles on Dream by Ernest Schanzer, the ways in which the fairies differed from each other and from the mortal characters are catalogued: Puck is malevolent ...
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... moon, and “discordia concors” (36) are basic to the play's theme of reconciliation. Since the characters are symbolic—e.g., Theseus and Hippolyta represent marriage and “a reconciliation of the seasons of nature, or the phases of time ...
... moon, and “discordia concors” (36) are basic to the play's theme of reconciliation. Since the characters are symbolic—e.g., Theseus and Hippolyta represent marriage and “a reconciliation of the seasons of nature, or the phases of time ...
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... (moon, dream, and eye) and plot elements because of their importance to Dream 's exploration of illusion in love and art. For Berry, Shakespeare's chief concern is epistemological: “The lovers declare illusion to be reality; the actors ...
... (moon, dream, and eye) and plot elements because of their importance to Dream 's exploration of illusion in love and art. For Berry, Shakespeare's chief concern is epistemological: “The lovers declare illusion to be reality; the actors ...
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