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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... Theseus's “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet” speech and Hippolyta's response to it. Maginn regards Theseus as Shakespeare's voice and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences. Maginn was also responsible for the first ...
... Theseus's “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet” speech and Hippolyta's response to it. Maginn regards Theseus as Shakespeare's voice and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences. Maginn was also responsible for the first ...
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... Theseus's reflections on art. Albeit Dowden views Theseus as central to Dream, one of Shakespeare's “heroic men of action” like Henry V or Hector— or Essex (60)—he disputes Theseus's yoking together “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet ...
... Theseus's reflections on art. Albeit Dowden views Theseus as central to Dream, one of Shakespeare's “heroic men of action” like Henry V or Hector— or Essex (60)—he disputes Theseus's yoking together “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet ...
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... Theseus. Lull revisits Dover Wilson's theory that Theseus's “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet” speech had been revised in order to chart its consequences for interpreting the character of Theseus and act 5 generally. Wilson's theory ...
... Theseus. Lull revisits Dover Wilson's theory that Theseus's “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet” speech had been revised in order to chart its consequences for interpreting the character of Theseus and act 5 generally. Wilson's theory ...
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... Theseus became known as lecherous, faithless, and tyrannical. Moreover, many Elizabethan spectators, knowing that Theseus caused the death of his son, Hippolytus, would have found the blessing of the “best bride-bed” ironic. T. Walter ...
... Theseus became known as lecherous, faithless, and tyrannical. Moreover, many Elizabethan spectators, knowing that Theseus caused the death of his son, Hippolytus, would have found the blessing of the “best bride-bed” ironic. T. Walter ...
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... Theseus material in Dream. Aside from the Theseus/Hippolyta frame, Chaucer supplies various structural characteristics and the much remarked upon discordia concors motif. Shakespeare's philosophic content, however, is presented more ...
... Theseus material in Dream. Aside from the Theseus/Hippolyta frame, Chaucer supplies various structural characteristics and the much remarked upon discordia concors motif. Shakespeare's philosophic content, however, is presented more ...
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