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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... Titania. Bottom treats her as carelessly as if she were the Wench of the next-door tapster” (102). Patriarchal thinking is just as soundly rooted. Maginn excuses Oberon for humiliating Titania; accidents happen: “Oberon himself, angry ...
... Titania. Bottom treats her as carelessly as if she were the Wench of the next-door tapster” (102). Patriarchal thinking is just as soundly rooted. Maginn excuses Oberon for humiliating Titania; accidents happen: “Oberon himself, angry ...
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... Titania's loyalty: “Titania has no spiritual association with her friend, but mere delight in her beauty, her 'swimming gait,' and her powers of imitation”; she is also blamed for not initiating a “scene of reconciliation with her ...
... Titania's loyalty: “Titania has no spiritual association with her friend, but mere delight in her beauty, her 'swimming gait,' and her powers of imitation”; she is also blamed for not initiating a “scene of reconciliation with her ...
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... Titania's fault of caprice and deserved punishment by “a dutiful husband” (403) who says,.in effect, “if you cannot live in peace with me, one of your own kind, then try the contrary, a horrid brute” (402). Happily, nineteenth-century ...
... Titania's fault of caprice and deserved punishment by “a dutiful husband” (403) who says,.in effect, “if you cannot live in peace with me, one of your own kind, then try the contrary, a horrid brute” (402). Happily, nineteenth-century ...
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... Titania derive from Pluto and his victim Proserpina in The Merchant 's Tale, Donaldson defends Titania from the attacks of Bonnard, Brooks, and others: “Shame on you, Titania, for holding out on that nice male chauvinist King of the ...
... Titania derive from Pluto and his victim Proserpina in The Merchant 's Tale, Donaldson defends Titania from the attacks of Bonnard, Brooks, and others: “Shame on you, Titania, for holding out on that nice male chauvinist King of the ...
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... Titania and of the nature of poetry; Reid avers that Shakespeare rejects art which might “devalue common earthly passion” (25). Introducing the Oxford edition of the play, Peter Holland (1995) surveys accepted and proposed sources at ...
... Titania and of the nature of poetry; Reid avers that Shakespeare rejects art which might “devalue common earthly passion” (25). Introducing the Oxford edition of the play, Peter Holland (1995) surveys accepted and proposed sources at ...
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