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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... relationship between Shakespeare's own dramaturgical procedures and generic claims and the interest an authoritative figure like Theseus has in shaping the present by suppressing the past. Atmosphere and Tone Boas's tum-of-the-century ...
... relationship between Shakespeare's own dramaturgical procedures and generic claims and the interest an authoritative figure like Theseus has in shaping the present by suppressing the past. Atmosphere and Tone Boas's tum-of-the-century ...
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... relationship” is “conflictual undifferentiation” (203) and that Dream is informed by “a common structure of mythical meaning” (211). Wolfgang Franke (1979) notes the bawdy double meanings of the mechanicals' names and language, bawdry ...
... relationship” is “conflictual undifferentiation” (203) and that Dream is informed by “a common structure of mythical meaning” (211). Wolfgang Franke (1979) notes the bawdy double meanings of the mechanicals' names and language, bawdry ...
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... relationship between reality and imagination, reason and passion, the material and the spiritual, husband and wife—was shared by many '50s critics. Like Edward Dowden in the nineteenth century, the American Poet Laureate and critic ...
... relationship between reality and imagination, reason and passion, the material and the spiritual, husband and wife—was shared by many '50s critics. Like Edward Dowden in the nineteenth century, the American Poet Laureate and critic ...
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... relationship between art and nature, and of “the point at which forms-in nature, mind, and language——interact and interpret one another” (127), she sets Bacon's Novum Organum against Dream, arguing that Shakespeare enlarges the category ...
... relationship between art and nature, and of “the point at which forms-in nature, mind, and language——interact and interpret one another” (127), she sets Bacon's Novum Organum against Dream, arguing that Shakespeare enlarges the category ...
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... relationship of the fairy king and queen and that of the lovers. The changeling could be “the little girl's fantasy of stealing mother's baby, and killing mother, as in this case the stolen child belonged to a woman who died in ...
... relationship of the fairy king and queen and that of the lovers. The changeling could be “the little girl's fantasy of stealing mother's baby, and killing mother, as in this case the stolen child belonged to a woman who died in ...
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