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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... significant contemporary interpretations, and reviews of the most influential productions. Each volume in the series, devoted to a Shakespearean play or poem (e.g., the sonnets, Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece), includes the most ...
... significant contemporary interpretations, and reviews of the most influential productions. Each volume in the series, devoted to a Shakespearean play or poem (e.g., the sonnets, Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece), includes the most ...
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... significant implications for criticism. The second section of each volume in the series is devoted to the play in performance and, again, is organized chronologically by publication date, beginning with some of the earliest and most ...
... significant implications for criticism. The second section of each volume in the series is devoted to the play in performance and, again, is organized chronologically by publication date, beginning with some of the earliest and most ...
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... performance criticism has assumed new significance. Accordingly, historicist, gender, and performance studies are the last of the critical categories, with a brief theatrical history concluding this introduction to 4 Dorothea Kehler.
... performance criticism has assumed new significance. Accordingly, historicist, gender, and performance studies are the last of the critical categories, with a brief theatrical history concluding this introduction to 4 Dorothea Kehler.
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... Significant nineteenth-century criticism begins in 1808 with Shakespeare's German translator, the Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple plot lines, noted that the ass head literalizes ...
... Significant nineteenth-century criticism begins in 1808 with Shakespeare's German translator, the Romantic critic August Wilhelm Schlegel. He wisely perceived unity in the multiple plot lines, noted that the ass head literalizes ...
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... end on 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.
... end on 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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