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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... Dream Annabel Patterson Dis/Figuring Power: Censorship and Representation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Barbara Freedman xi xiii 77 85 107 127 145 165 179 A Kingdom of Shadows Louis A. Montrose Textual Theory, Literary Contents.
... Dream Annabel Patterson Dis/Figuring Power: Censorship and Representation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Barbara Freedman xi xiii 77 85 107 127 145 165 179 A Kingdom of Shadows Louis A. Montrose Textual Theory, Literary Contents.
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... representation, editors include earlier as well as contemporary criticism. Their goal is to include the widest possible range of critical approaches to the play or poem to demonstrate the multiplicity and complexity of critical response ...
... representation, editors include earlier as well as contemporary criticism. Their goal is to include the widest possible range of critical approaches to the play or poem to demonstrate the multiplicity and complexity of critical response ...
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... representation in Art,” in which “the first two parts mirror themselves—the action reflects itself, the play plays itself playing; it is its own spectator, including its audience and itself in one and the same movement” (383) ...
... representation in Art,” in which “the first two parts mirror themselves—the action reflects itself, the play plays itself playing; it is its own spectator, including its audience and itself in one and the same movement” (383) ...
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... representation also depend on the “censorship” (158) of truth to convincingly portray an organized configuration of individuals, just as graphic distortion is employed in painting to simulate perspective. According to Freedman, Dream ...
... representation also depend on the “censorship” (158) of truth to convincingly portray an organized configuration of individuals, just as graphic distortion is employed in painting to simulate perspective. According to Freedman, Dream ...
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... representation of the social hierarchy and implicit class antagonism in Dream are earlier comments on Bottom and his fellows. Appreciation of Bottom as more than just a clown begins in the nineteenth century. While Shakespeare's ...
... representation of the social hierarchy and implicit class antagonism in Dream are earlier comments on Bottom and his fellows. Appreciation of Bottom as more than just a clown begins in the nineteenth century. While Shakespeare's ...
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