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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... queen's love. Awareness of class issues almost surfaces in Maginn's amusement at Bottom's democratizing nature: “Theseus would have bent in reverent awe before Titania. Bottom treats her as carelessly as if she were the Wench of the ...
... queen's love. Awareness of class issues almost surfaces in Maginn's amusement at Bottom's democratizing nature: “Theseus would have bent in reverent awe before Titania. Bottom treats her as carelessly as if she were the Wench of the ...
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... queen, while hunting horns intimate harmony among the newly awakened lovers; the play ends with the fairies' song and dance in blessing. Shakespeare used music, says Long, “to symbolize the concord arising from the settlement of the ...
... queen, while hunting horns intimate harmony among the newly awakened lovers; the play ends with the fairies' song and dance in blessing. Shakespeare used music, says Long, “to symbolize the concord arising from the settlement of the ...
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... queen and that of the lovers. The changeling could be “the little girl's fantasy of stealing mother's baby, and killing mother, as in this case the stolen child belonged to a woman who died in childbirth.” Moreover, Titania is a ...
... queen and that of the lovers. The changeling could be “the little girl's fantasy of stealing mother's baby, and killing mother, as in this case the stolen child belonged to a woman who died in childbirth.” Moreover, Titania is a ...
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... Queen's Accession Day) and the professional theater, dependent upon both patronage and the market, were encouraged. While Pyramus and Thisbe marks the disparity between amateurism and professionalism, subversion inheres in the ...
... Queen's Accession Day) and the professional theater, dependent upon both patronage and the market, were encouraged. While Pyramus and Thisbe marks the disparity between amateurism and professionalism, subversion inheres in the ...
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... Queen is inscribed within the imaginative reality of the dramatist's control over a Queen (65). Similarly, Theseus has defeated an Amazon, Hermia is enjoined to regard “single blessedness” as a punishment, and Oberon “free[s]” (71) the ...
... Queen is inscribed within the imaginative reality of the dramatist's control over a Queen (65). Similarly, Theseus has defeated an Amazon, Hermia is enjoined to regard “single blessedness” as a punishment, and Oberon “free[s]” (71) the ...
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