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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... romantic love is a dream. The faculty of imagination, both celebrated and mocked in Dream, is integral to the audience as well as to the playwright; the one takes appearance—a dream of sorts—for reality, the other creates a reality A ...
... romantic love is a dream. The faculty of imagination, both celebrated and mocked in Dream, is integral to the audience as well as to the playwright; the one takes appearance—a dream of sorts—for reality, the other creates a reality A ...
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... Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple plot lines, noted that the ass head literalizes Bottom's true nature, identified the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe as a burlesque of the adventures of the ...
... Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple plot lines, noted that the ass head literalizes Bottom's true nature, identified the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe as a burlesque of the adventures of the ...
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... Romantic but taught philosophy rather than literature. Linking class to platonism, Ulrici thought Dream organically unified in a particularly platonic way: “. . . Shakspeare has regarded human life in this play as a dream. . . .” (274) ...
... Romantic but taught philosophy rather than literature. Linking class to platonism, Ulrici thought Dream organically unified in a particularly platonic way: “. . . Shakspeare has regarded human life in this play as a dream. . . .” (274) ...
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... a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
... a more promising note. Denmark's George Brandes (1895-96), aside from pointing to various sources and to influences on the Romantics, looks forward to Jan Kott's significant 1964 piece (see below under I0 Dorothea Kehler.
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... romantic love. Winfried Schleiner (1985) provides a new source character: the Pluck of the anonymous Most Strange and Admirable Discovery of the Three Witches of Warboys (1593), referred to by the exorcist John Darrell in his A ...
... romantic love. Winfried Schleiner (1985) provides a new source character: the Pluck of the anonymous Most Strange and Admirable Discovery of the Three Witches of Warboys (1593), referred to by the exorcist John Darrell in his A ...
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