A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler Routledge, 06/12/2012 - 506 páginas 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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... Demetrius has initially fallen victim and which is concretized by love-in-idleness. Love-madness, “as opposed to romantic love, is entirely divorced from both reason and the evidence of the senses,” engendered by the imagination alone ...
... Demetrius has initially fallen victim and which is concretized by love-in-idleness. Love-madness, “as opposed to romantic love, is entirely divorced from both reason and the evidence of the senses,” engendered by the imagination alone ...
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... (Demetrius dotes on Hennia) or loving an unworthy object (Titania dotes on Bottom). Theseus's speech opening act 5 broadens the discussion from imagination in love to imagination in art. Pointing out that Theseus is “[h]imself a creation ...
... (Demetrius dotes on Hennia) or loving an unworthy object (Titania dotes on Bottom). Theseus's speech opening act 5 broadens the discussion from imagination in love to imagination in art. Pointing out that Theseus is “[h]imself a creation ...
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... Demetrius are verbally brutal, “[t]he lovers are exchangeable” (219) and objectified, the changeling is a sexual toy for Oberon, the aristocrats—mortal and immortal—are promiscuous: “The lovers are ashamed of that night and do not want ...
... Demetrius are verbally brutal, “[t]he lovers are exchangeable” (219) and objectified, the changeling is a sexual toy for Oberon, the aristocrats—mortal and immortal—are promiscuous: “The lovers are ashamed of that night and do not want ...
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... Demetrius' nastiness before his enchantment. Taylor claims that John Russell Brown, who preceded Kott, paints too cheerful a picture. Love is painful as well as joyous, people (and fairies) often petty. Dream anticipates Troilus and ...
... Demetrius' nastiness before his enchantment. Taylor claims that John Russell Brown, who preceded Kott, paints too cheerful a picture. Love is painful as well as joyous, people (and fairies) often petty. Dream anticipates Troilus and ...
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... Demetrius, as surrogate for her true love, Egeus. Rather than committing psychic incest, she will remain celibate. Her rivalry with Helena figures her feelings toward her mother and sister. Again the little girl's fantasy: “father ...
... Demetrius, as surrogate for her true love, Egeus. Rather than committing psychic incest, she will remain celibate. Her rivalry with Helena figures her feelings toward her mother and sister. Again the little girl's fantasy: “father ...
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