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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... vision of the play as cruelly, even bestially, orgiastic, no doubt it still is. But that prominent reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often fascinating ...
... vision of the play as cruelly, even bestially, orgiastic, no doubt it still is. But that prominent reading revolutionized criticism and stage productions. In its wake, to issues long explored, critics added often fascinating ...
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... vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different tack regarding social Stratification. Replying to Malone, he argues that Dream demonstrates Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright; its Thesean ...
... vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different tack regarding social Stratification. Replying to Malone, he argues that Dream demonstrates Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright; its Thesean ...
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... visions of the same book, read and rewrit by Chaucer and Shakespeare with varying emphases but comparable irony” (36). Barbara A. Mowat (1989) studies Theseus, constructed out of tendentious writings on witchcraft and imagination, as ...
... visions of the same book, read and rewrit by Chaucer and Shakespeare with varying emphases but comparable irony” (36). Barbara A. Mowat (1989) studies Theseus, constructed out of tendentious writings on witchcraft and imagination, as ...
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... vision. David Bevington's essay (1975) offers one of the most appealing readings of Dream. Bevington finds Kott “helpful . . . though he has surely gone too far” (86). For example, while it is possible that Oberon is bisexual and ...
... vision. David Bevington's essay (1975) offers one of the most appealing readings of Dream. Bevington finds Kott “helpful . . . though he has surely gone too far” (86). For example, while it is possible that Oberon is bisexual and ...
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... vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare was presenting a Platonic dream world, a shadow world out of which would grow a Christian future life, so too John Vyvyan (1961) regards the play as informed by Neoplatonism. He cites ...
... vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare was presenting a Platonic dream world, a shadow world out of which would grow a Christian future life, so too John Vyvyan (1961) regards the play as informed by Neoplatonism. He cites ...
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