A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler Routledge, 6 dec. 2012 - 506 pagini 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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... Helena to Form and Dignity [1994] Lisa J. Moore Marion McClinton's A Midsummer Night 's Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse, 1995: Appropriation Through Performance Dorothea Kehler 421 429 453 473 GENERAL EDIToR's INTRODUCTION The ...
... Helena to Form and Dignity [1994] Lisa J. Moore Marion McClinton's A Midsummer Night 's Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse, 1995: Appropriation Through Performance Dorothea Kehler 421 429 453 473 GENERAL EDIToR's INTRODUCTION The ...
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... Helena is guilty of “ungrateful treachery” to Hermia, served Coleridge as a springboard for misogynous maundering. Helena's betrayal of Hermia is too true a picture of the lax holds that principles A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 7.
... Helena is guilty of “ungrateful treachery” to Hermia, served Coleridge as a springboard for misogynous maundering. Helena's betrayal of Hermia is too true a picture of the lax holds that principles A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 7.
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... Helena.) William Maginn, an Anglo-Irish writer, is notable for an 1837 essay on 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 ...
... Helena.) William Maginn, an Anglo-Irish writer, is notable for an 1837 essay on 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 ...
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... Helena is no morally weak betrayer but part of “a transparently clumsy device for concentrating the four lovers on a single spot” (185), and the play of Pyramus and Thisbe a parody of contemporary exploitation of classical subjects as ...
... Helena is no morally weak betrayer but part of “a transparently clumsy device for concentrating the four lovers on a single spot” (185), and the play of Pyramus and Thisbe a parody of contemporary exploitation of classical subjects as ...
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... Helena's and Hermia's constancy in love, which destroys their friendship, is another motif borrowed from Palamon and Arcite. Noting that Oberon and Titania derive from Pluto and his victim Proserpina in The Merchant 's Tale, Donaldson ...
... Helena's and Hermia's constancy in love, which destroys their friendship, is another motif borrowed from Palamon and Arcite. Noting that Oberon and Titania derive from Pluto and his victim Proserpina in The Merchant 's Tale, Donaldson ...
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