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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... Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The Interpretation of Dreams Thelma N. Greenfield Chronotope and Repression in A Midsummer ...
... Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night 's Dream Christ); Desmet Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The Interpretation of Dreams Thelma N. Greenfield Chronotope and Repression in A Midsummer ...
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... women, which was all my pleasure” (3: 208). An initial problem for neo-classicists honoring the new scientism were the fairies. Should they be depicted? Some should, said Dryden in 1677, by then a major writer and arbiter of taste. He ...
... women, which was all my pleasure” (3: 208). An initial problem for neo-classicists honoring the new scientism were the fairies. Should they be depicted? Some should, said Dryden in 1677, by then a major writer and arbiter of taste. He ...
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... women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive ...
... women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive ...
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... Women, and various tales of Romeo and Juliet. Kenneth Muir's Shakespeare 's Sources (1961), actually a 1957 volume reprinted with new appendices, is especially useful for the sources of Pyramus and Thisbe. Roger Lancelyn Green (1962) ...
... Women, and various tales of Romeo and Juliet. Kenneth Muir's Shakespeare 's Sources (1961), actually a 1957 volume reprinted with new appendices, is especially useful for the sources of Pyramus and Thisbe. Roger Lancelyn Green (1962) ...
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... women's political power. Since these accounts resonate in Oberon's and Titania's quarrel over possession of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal power was as ...
... women's political power. Since these accounts resonate in Oberon's and Titania's quarrel over possession of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal power was as ...
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