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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... theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive bibliographic essay that cites and evaluates significant critical works—essays, journal articles, dissertations, books, theatre documents-and gives readers a guide to ...
... theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive bibliographic essay that cites and evaluates significant critical works—essays, journal articles, dissertations, books, theatre documents-and gives readers a guide to ...
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... theatrical criticism of Shakespeare's greatest legacy, his work. - Philip C. Kolin University of Southern Mississippi Acknowledgments The cooperation of many people made this project possible. xii GENERAL EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
... theatrical criticism of Shakespeare's greatest legacy, his work. - Philip C. Kolin University of Southern Mississippi Acknowledgments The cooperation of many people made this project possible. xii GENERAL EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
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... theatrical history under the rubric of Performance Criticism in the Introduction is as much his work as mine, if not more. The general editor of this series, Philip Kolin, has been a kindly reader and mentor; my editor at Garland ...
... theatrical history under the rubric of Performance Criticism in the Introduction is as much his work as mine, if not more. The general editor of this series, Philip Kolin, has been a kindly reader and mentor; my editor at Garland ...
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... theatrical composite, like the poetic texture, is a triumph of originality. The focus of Dream criticism has varied with the age. Restoration and eighteenth-century commentators on drama most frequently fastened on plot, nineteenth ...
... theatrical composite, like the poetic texture, is a triumph of originality. The focus of Dream criticism has varied with the age. Restoration and eighteenth-century commentators on drama most frequently fastened on plot, nineteenth ...
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... , and 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.
... , and 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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