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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... Egeus's silence in act 4, scene 1, when Theseus allows Hermia to marry Lysander. Whether Egeus accepts Hermia or rejects her depends on whether the director follows the folio version or the quarto. A concomitant effect is the degree of ...
... Egeus's silence in act 4, scene 1, when Theseus allows Hermia to marry Lysander. Whether Egeus accepts Hermia or rejects her depends on whether the director follows the folio version or the quarto. A concomitant effect is the degree of ...
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... Egeus's speaking Philostrate's Q1 lines. In her “Textual Theory, Literary Interpretation, and the Last Act of A Midsummer Night's Dream” written expressly for this volume, Janis Lull marries textual criticism to sensitive close reading ...
... Egeus's speaking Philostrate's Q1 lines. In her “Textual Theory, Literary Interpretation, and the Last Act of A Midsummer Night's Dream” written expressly for this volume, Janis Lull marries textual criticism to sensitive close reading ...
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... Egeus and the young lovers” (269-70). Theseus does not devalue imagination as long as it, too, knows its subordinate place. The amoral fairies represent imagination (for Bonnard, sensuality qualified only by taste and beauty) given full ...
... Egeus and the young lovers” (269-70). Theseus does not devalue imagination as long as it, too, knows its subordinate place. The amoral fairies represent imagination (for Bonnard, sensuality qualified only by taste and beauty) given full ...
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... Egeus and bringing harmony out of discord. The lovers' identities, blurred and lost in the forest, recall actors' unstable identities; indeed, the artisans' play fails because the artisans cannot “lose their identities even ...
... Egeus and bringing harmony out of discord. The lovers' identities, blurred and lost in the forest, recall actors' unstable identities; indeed, the artisans' play fails because the artisans cannot “lose their identities even ...
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... 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 really loves me; mother (sister) may love him ...
... 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 really loves me; mother (sister) may love him ...
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