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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... wedding. The poet Walter de la Mare (1935) explained lines he found bland, undifferentiated, and stylistically discordant (particularly those of the lovers) by suggesting that Dream was either composed piecemeal or was in part ...
... wedding. The poet Walter de la Mare (1935) explained lines he found bland, undifferentiated, and stylistically discordant (particularly those of the lovers) by suggesting that Dream was either composed piecemeal or was in part ...
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... wedding, with Theseus and Hippolyta as “stand-ins for the noble couple” (125). May games “bringing in summer to the bridal” (119), with Titania as “a Summer Lady” and Oberon as the May King, fuse various aspects of holiday, pageantry ...
... wedding, with Theseus and Hippolyta as “stand-ins for the noble couple” (125). May games “bringing in summer to the bridal” (119), with Titania as “a Summer Lady” and Oberon as the May King, fuse various aspects of holiday, pageantry ...
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... wedding entertainment is also his. Their names, linked to nature as well as to their crafts, “imply the great unity of natural history, plants and trees, animals, man as body and mind, the arts” (130). Through them, Shakespeare shows ...
... wedding entertainment is also his. Their names, linked to nature as well as to their crafts, “imply the great unity of natural history, plants and trees, animals, man as body and mind, the arts” (130). Through them, Shakespeare shows ...
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... wedding” and “out of chaos” brought “a birth of beauty” (7) are the ideal that the other couples must attain. Order is begotten through love, when soul-mates recognize each other's divine nature, and “every betrayal of love is a ...
... wedding” and “out of chaos” brought “a birth of beauty” (7) are the ideal that the other couples must attain. Order is begotten through love, when soul-mates recognize each other's divine nature, and “every betrayal of love is a ...
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... wedding in the mid-1590s, the first quarto edition of 1600 indicates it had already been publicly performed on several occasions by the Lord Chamberlain's Men; Ronald Watkins and Jeremy Lemmon (1974) have described their attempt at a ...
... wedding in the mid-1590s, the first quarto edition of 1600 indicates it had already been publicly performed on several occasions by the Lord Chamberlain's Men; Ronald Watkins and Jeremy Lemmon (1974) have described their attempt at a ...
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