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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... Patriarchal thinking is just as soundly rooted. Maginn excuses Oberon for humiliating Titania; accidents happen: “Oberon himself, angry as he is with the caprices of his queen, does not anticipate any such object for her charmed ...
... Patriarchal thinking is just as soundly rooted. Maginn excuses Oberon for humiliating Titania; accidents happen: “Oberon himself, angry as he is with the caprices of his queen, does not anticipate any such object for her charmed ...
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... patriarchal authority; the supernatural; and marriage grounded, if uneasily, in romantic love. Winfried Schleiner (1985) provides a new source character: the Pluck of the anonymous Most Strange and Admirable Discovery of the Three ...
... patriarchal authority; the supernatural; and marriage grounded, if uneasily, in romantic love. Winfried Schleiner (1985) provides a new source character: the Pluck of the anonymous Most Strange and Admirable Discovery of the Three ...
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... 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.
... 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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... patriarchal hierarchy, but rather exposes it as “provisional and man-made” (342). Whereas Howard is alert to the play's political aspects, John Wilders (1994) eschews questions of power. In a heuristic essay he suggests that performance ...
... patriarchal hierarchy, but rather exposes it as “provisional and man-made” (342). Whereas Howard is alert to the play's political aspects, John Wilders (1994) eschews questions of power. In a heuristic essay he suggests that performance ...
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... patriarchal word and an intrusive feminine voice that corrects, completes, and supplements masculine discourse with her alternative ethics and poetics. Structurally, Dream operates according to the logic of hypallage. Within the play's ...
... patriarchal word and an intrusive feminine voice that corrects, completes, and supplements masculine discourse with her alternative ethics and poetics. Structurally, Dream operates according to the logic of hypallage. Within the play's ...
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