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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... plot, nineteenth-century critics on character, and twentiethcentury writers on language and theme—though in the last several decades on explicitly political issues as well. A Midsummer Night's Dream, while no glaring exception to trends ...
... plot, nineteenth-century critics on character, and twentiethcentury writers on language and theme—though in the last several decades on explicitly political issues as well. A Midsummer Night's Dream, while no glaring exception to trends ...
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... plot as “puerile” and regretted the “odd mixture of incidents” and “forced connexion of various stiles” (8: 137). One of the most important of eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, Edward Malone (1778), offers the most revealing criticism ...
... plot as “puerile” and regretted the “odd mixture of incidents” and “forced connexion of various stiles” (8: 137). One of the most important of eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, Edward Malone (1778), offers the most revealing criticism ...
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... plot strands to achieve the most effective comic perspective” (50). While we are distanced from the “virtual caricatures of lovesick youth” (47), who are manipulated by the plot, A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism I 9.
... plot strands to achieve the most effective comic perspective” (50). While we are distanced from the “virtual caricatures of lovesick youth” (47), who are manipulated by the plot, A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism I 9.
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... plot, the choric subplot sharpens the play's comedic focus. Shakespeare has adapted Chaucer's “Knight's Tale” to romantic comedy. Work on the structure of Dream assumed greater prominence with the assimilation of French structuralist ...
... plot, the choric subplot sharpens the play's comedic focus. Shakespeare has adapted Chaucer's “Knight's Tale” to romantic comedy. Work on the structure of Dream assumed greater prominence with the assimilation of French structuralist ...
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... 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 declare reality to be ...
... 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 declare reality to be ...
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