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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... Myth Douglas F reake Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Thomas Moisan Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet ...
... Myth Douglas F reake Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Thomas Moisan Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet ...
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... mythological, while Madeleine Doran (1962) discusses post-Ovidian versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story-a twelfth-century Norman lay and a sixteenth-century Italian retelling. Shakespeare, she believes, would have known just such ...
... mythological, while Madeleine Doran (1962) discusses post-Ovidian versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story-a twelfth-century Norman lay and a sixteenth-century Italian retelling. Shakespeare, she believes, would have known just such ...
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... myths and literary allusions. Kott now believes that Dream is susceptible to light as well as dark interpretations. John S. Mebane (1982) considers Chaucer's “Knight's Tale” the most important source for the Theseus material in Dream ...
... myths and literary allusions. Kott now believes that Dream is susceptible to light as well as dark interpretations. John S. Mebane (1982) considers Chaucer's “Knight's Tale” the most important source for the Theseus material in Dream ...
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... of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal power was as vital in Elizabethan England as it had been in classical Athens and that the l 6 Dorothea Kehler.
... of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal power was as vital in Elizabethan England as it had been in classical Athens and that the l 6 Dorothea Kehler.
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... myth and romance and the gentle English scene are at one, and where all is easily intelligible, lyrical in mood and gentle” (76). David Young's study (1966) is a major contribution to Dream criticism. Focusing on style and structure in ...
... myth and romance and the gentle English scene are at one, and where all is easily intelligible, lyrical in mood and gentle” (76). David Young's study (1966) is a major contribution to Dream criticism. Focusing on style and structure in ...
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