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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... character groups through elegantly patterned discourse; and employs phonic and rhythmic sound variations to make music out of language. The text, which exists in three versions differing primarily in the number of stage directions ...
... character groups through elegantly patterned discourse; and employs phonic and rhythmic sound variations to make music out of language. The text, which exists in three versions differing primarily in the number of stage directions ...
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... character groups or story lines, sometimes in a literary component such as language, sometimes in a favored critical approach. Inevitably, some essays overlap these categories, which themselves overlap. Charting English-language ...
... character groups or story lines, sometimes in a literary component such as language, sometimes in a favored critical approach. Inevitably, some essays overlap these categories, which themselves overlap. Charting English-language ...
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... characters are subservient to the interests of those beneath them” (2: 336). Aristocrats, especially Theseus, are insufficiently distinguished from their inferiors, and any suggestion of a Saturnalian structure unnerves Malone, who ...
... characters are subservient to the interests of those beneath them” (2: 336). Aristocrats, especially Theseus, are insufficiently distinguished from their inferiors, and any suggestion of a Saturnalian structure unnerves Malone, who ...
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... character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive [concerned with extemals]. (90) Thus are gender issues introduced into the critical canon of Dream. (See Lisa J. Moore's essay in this volume for an actress's take on Helena ...
... character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive [concerned with extemals]. (90) Thus are gender issues introduced into the critical canon of Dream. (See Lisa J. Moore's essay in this volume for an actress's take on Helena ...
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... character, the best-drawn character being Bottom. Acknowledging Bottom's self-confidence, authority, and selflove, Knight maintains, “Why, Bottom the weaver is the representative of the whole human race” (209). Knight continues by ...
... character, the best-drawn character being Bottom. Acknowledging Bottom's self-confidence, authority, and selflove, Knight maintains, “Why, Bottom the weaver is the representative of the whole human race” (209). Knight continues by ...
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