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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... Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream R. W. Dent Titania and the Ass's Head Jan Kott A Midsummer Night's Dream: “Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought Shall Go Ill” Shirley Nelson Garner “I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out”: Deference ...
... Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream R. W. Dent Titania and the Ass's Head Jan Kott A Midsummer Night's Dream: “Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought Shall Go Ill” Shirley Nelson Garner “I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out”: Deference ...
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... imagination, and above all love were central. The play has been understood as implying, platonically, that life is a dream, or, skeptically, that romantic love is a dream. The faculty of imagination, both celebrated and mocked in Dream ...
... imagination, and above all love were central. The play has been understood as implying, platonically, that life is a dream, or, skeptically, that romantic love is a dream. The faculty of imagination, both celebrated and mocked in Dream ...
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... imagination, and the supernatural are often linked. Analyses of Dream's many complex issues are sometimes grounded in the four character groups or story lines, sometimes in a literary component such as language, sometimes in a favored ...
... imagination, and the supernatural are often linked. Analyses of Dream's many complex issues are sometimes grounded in the four character groups or story lines, sometimes in a literary component such as language, sometimes in a favored ...
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... imagination written in the early 1960s, takes for granted that “Lysander and Hermia may not behave rationally in their flight from authority” (123,n.18); just a few years later, in the wake of the United States's civil rights movement ...
... imagination written in the early 1960s, takes for granted that “Lysander and Hermia may not behave rationally in their flight from authority” (123,n.18); just a few years later, in the wake of the United States's civil rights movement ...
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... richness. Good-natured though conceited, Bottom “displays no inconsiderable store of imagination in his intercourse with the little people of the fairy world” (101). Bottom's conceit, A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 9.
... richness. Good-natured though conceited, Bottom “displays no inconsiderable store of imagination in his intercourse with the little people of the fairy world” (101). Bottom's conceit, A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 9.
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