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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... 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 character study of Bottom—“the lucky man, . . . on whom Fortnne [sic] ...
... 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 character study of Bottom—“the lucky man, . . . on whom Fortnne [sic] ...
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... Hippolyta comes close to sharing the spectators' awareness. Their perception of Oberon's benevolence towards the lovers provides “an environment in which comic effects can flourish even in dark moments” (40). For Sheldon P. Zitner (1960) ...
... Hippolyta comes close to sharing the spectators' awareness. Their perception of Oberon's benevolence towards the lovers provides “an environment in which comic effects can flourish even in dark moments” (40). For Sheldon P. Zitner (1960) ...
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... Hippolyta articulates a feminine aesthetic that gives meaning to the lovers' dream of mutual “transfiguration.” Finally, the interlude demonstrates comedically the folly of masculine attempts to control and contain the feminine figures ...
... Hippolyta articulates a feminine aesthetic that gives meaning to the lovers' dream of mutual “transfiguration.” Finally, the interlude demonstrates comedically the folly of masculine attempts to control and contain the feminine figures ...
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... Hippolyta, are of adult human stature, and Titania is also partly informed by associations with the moon. The following year George A. Bonnard (1956) challenged Latham's reading of Dream's fairies as decent creatures; rather, as ...
... Hippolyta, are of adult human stature, and Titania is also partly informed by associations with the moon. The following year George A. Bonnard (1956) challenged Latham's reading of Dream's fairies as decent creatures; rather, as ...
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... Hippolyta's view of art as transfiguring and admirable comes closer to Shakespeare's than Theseus's, which erases any distinction between good and bad art and tolerates art (if it respects authority) because entertainment promotes ...
... Hippolyta's view of art as transfiguring and admirable comes closer to Shakespeare's than Theseus's, which erases any distinction between good and bad art and tolerates art (if it respects authority) because entertainment promotes ...
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