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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... 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, the sexual revolution, and the protests against the Vietnam war ...
... 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, the sexual revolution, and the protests against the Vietnam war ...
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... Lysander through mockery of his father-in-law (188).” Pyramus and Thisbe are “two lovers, who behind their parents' backs 'think no scorn to woo by moonlight'. . .” (188-89). The fairies are no better; “personified dream gods,” they ...
... Lysander through mockery of his father-in-law (188).” Pyramus and Thisbe are “two lovers, who behind their parents' backs 'think no scorn to woo by moonlight'. . .” (188-89). The fairies are no better; “personified dream gods,” they ...
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... Lysander. Whether Egeus accepts Hermia or rejects her depends on whether the director follows the folio version or the quarto. A concomitant effect is the degree of cohesion between Hermia's birth family, her new marital family, and the ...
... Lysander. Whether Egeus accepts Hermia or rejects her depends on whether the director follows the folio version or the quarto. A concomitant effect is the degree of cohesion between Hermia's birth family, her new marital family, and the ...
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... Lysander and Demetrius are verbally brutal, “[t]he lovers are exchangeable” (219) and objectified, the changeling is a sexual toy for Oberon, the aristocrats—mortal and immortal—are promiscuous: “The lovers are ashamed of that night and ...
... Lysander and Demetrius are verbally brutal, “[t]he lovers are exchangeable” (219) and objectified, the changeling is a sexual toy for Oberon, the aristocrats—mortal and immortal—are promiscuous: “The lovers are ashamed of that night and ...
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... Lysander: in reality, Hermia loves her father's choice, Demetrius, as surrogate for her true love, Egeus. Rather than committing psychic incest, she will remain celibate. Her rivalry with Helena figures her feelings toward her mother ...
... Lysander: in reality, Hermia loves her father's choice, Demetrius, as surrogate for her true love, Egeus. Rather than committing psychic incest, she will remain celibate. Her rivalry with Helena figures her feelings toward her mother ...
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