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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... play's action, which seemed to take less than two days and nights rather than the promised four, a curious issue that lingered into the late nineteenth century with Halliwell-Phillipps (1841) arguing that Shakespeare's many ...
... play's action, which seemed to take less than two days and nights rather than the promised four, a curious issue that lingered into the late nineteenth century with Halliwell-Phillipps (1841) arguing that Shakespeare's many ...
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Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. poetry and commended the play's characterization and originality but nevertheless ... play. Presumably, had Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to ...
Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. poetry and commended the play's characterization and originality but nevertheless ... play. Presumably, had Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to ...
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... play as a dream. . . .” (274). Noting class differences among the character groups, Ulrici explained what Malone ... play's informing comic vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different ...
... play as a dream. . . .” (274). Noting class differences among the character groups, Ulrici explained what Malone ... play's informing comic vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different ...
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Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. Shakespeare first worked on the play, revising it a few years later by adding Bottom and ... play's occasion, considering the various weddings for which Dream may have been written and finding none of the ...
Critical Essays Dorothea Kehler. Shakespeare first worked on the play, revising it a few years later by adding Bottom and ... play's occasion, considering the various weddings for which Dream may have been written and finding none of the ...
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... play's dualism, its juxtaposing of Paul with Apuleius, of Neoplatonism with Bakhtinian carnival, by cataloguing the play's constituent myths and literary allusions. Kott now believes that Dream is susceptible to light as well as dark ...
... play's dualism, its juxtaposing of Paul with Apuleius, of Neoplatonism with Bakhtinian carnival, by cataloguing the play's constituent myths and literary allusions. Kott now believes that Dream is susceptible to light as well as dark ...
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