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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... Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The Interpretation of Dreams Thelma N. Greenfield Chronotope and Repression in A Midsummer Night's Dream Susan Baker Preposterous ...
... Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The Interpretation of Dreams Thelma N. Greenfield Chronotope and Repression in A Midsummer Night's Dream Susan Baker Preposterous ...
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... readers see and further appreciate the way a Shakespearean play has taken shape in the theatre. Each volume in the Garland Shakespeare Criticism series strives to give readers a balanced, representative collection of the best that has ...
... readers see and further appreciate the way a Shakespearean play has taken shape in the theatre. Each volume in the Garland Shakespeare Criticism series strives to give readers a balanced, representative collection of the best that has ...
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... reader and mentor; my editor at Garland Publishing, Phyllis Korper, and her staff have been most supportive. I would also like to thank those who generously gave of their time to read and comment upon drafts of my introduction and essay ...
... reader and mentor; my editor at Garland Publishing, Phyllis Korper, and her staff have been most supportive. I would also like to thank those who generously gave of their time to read and comment upon drafts of my introduction and essay ...
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... reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often ... readings. Recently, the negotiations between criticism and performance have become more visible, and performance ...
... reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often ... readings. Recently, the negotiations between criticism and performance have become more visible, and performance ...
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... readers are more apt to recognize whether the critic is politically and theoretically selfconscious, to ask why the critic focuses where s/he does, to speculate about whose interests are furthered by a particular piece of criticism, and ...
... readers are more apt to recognize whether the critic is politically and theoretically selfconscious, to ask why the critic focuses where s/he does, to speculate about whose interests are furthered by a particular piece of criticism, and ...
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