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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... mechanicals than Gervinus, noting both their individualization and their collective richness. Good-natured though conceited, Bottom “displays no inconsiderable store of imagination in his intercourse with the little people of the fairy ...
... mechanicals than Gervinus, noting both their individualization and their collective richness. Good-natured though conceited, Bottom “displays no inconsiderable store of imagination in his intercourse with the little people of the fairy ...
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... mechanicals provide the anti-masque, while “[t]he influence of the dance has affected not merely isolated songs and speeches, but the whole structure of A Midsummer Night 's Dream (331). G. Wilson Knight (1932), perhaps the best-known ...
... mechanicals provide the anti-masque, while “[t]he influence of the dance has affected not merely isolated songs and speeches, but the whole structure of A Midsummer Night 's Dream (331). G. Wilson Knight (1932), perhaps the best-known ...
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... mechanicals' realistic prose, and the fairies' lyricism into something rustic and very English. Shakespeare's poetry “is gathered up into the dominant mood of the Dream, where myth and romance and the gentle English scene are at one ...
... mechanicals' realistic prose, and the fairies' lyricism into something rustic and very English. Shakespeare's poetry “is gathered up into the dominant mood of the Dream, where myth and romance and the gentle English scene are at one ...
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... mechanicals' speech, focusing on Bottom; Vickers demonstrates how syntax and repetition create Bottom's characterization. Thomas Clayton (1971), in an amusing essay on the wall scene, finds textual support for Wall spreading his legs ...
... mechanicals' speech, focusing on Bottom; Vickers demonstrates how syntax and repetition create Bottom's characterization. Thomas Clayton (1971), in an amusing essay on the wall scene, finds textual support for Wall spreading his legs ...
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... mechanicals' world, the prosaic. The play assigns these worlds an order of precedence. In the tradition of Pettet, John Russell Brown (1957) presents a defense of romantic love. On its surface Dream offers Bottom as the most reasonable ...
... mechanicals' world, the prosaic. The play assigns these worlds an order of precedence. In the tradition of Pettet, John Russell Brown (1957) presents a defense of romantic love. On its surface Dream offers Bottom as the most reasonable ...
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