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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... children and women's political power. Since these accounts resonate in Oberon's and Titania's quarrel over possession of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal ...
... children and women's political power. Since these accounts resonate in Oberon's and Titania's quarrel over possession of the changeling boy, Freake concludes that the Theseus myth resurfaces in Dream because the question of patriarchal ...
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... changeling boy through a kind of death once more to be wooed and won by Oberon” (39). Just as Zimbardo, untouched by the social interrogations of the '60s, takes female subordination within obligatory marriage for granted, so, too, he ...
... changeling boy through a kind of death once more to be wooed and won by Oberon” (39). Just as Zimbardo, untouched by the social interrogations of the '60s, takes female subordination within obligatory marriage for granted, so, too, he ...
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... 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 “castrating woman who feminizes the male ...
... 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 “castrating woman who feminizes the male ...
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... changeling boy, a problem with homosexual overtones, explicitly focuses the problem of achieving sexual identity” (188). Alex Aronson's Jungian interpretation (1972) posits Theseus as the conscious mind and Puck as the unconscious in ...
... changeling boy, a problem with homosexual overtones, explicitly focuses the problem of achieving sexual identity” (188). Alex Aronson's Jungian interpretation (1972) posits Theseus as the conscious mind and Puck as the unconscious in ...
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... boy” in the cast of a University of California at Santa Cruz production. The changeling, an ethnically coded indicator of “the play's complicity in the racialist ideologies being created by early modern England's participation in ...
... boy” in the cast of a University of California at Santa Cruz production. The changeling, an ethnically coded indicator of “the play's complicity in the racialist ideologies being created by early modern England's participation in ...
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