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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... Comic Version of the Theseus Myth Douglas F reake Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Thomas Moisan Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer ...
... Comic Version of the Theseus Myth Douglas F reake Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation in A Midsummer Night 's Dream Thomas Moisan Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer ...
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... comic vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different tack regarding social Stratification. Replying to Malone, he argues that Dream demonstrates Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright; its ...
... comic vision. Charles Knight (1849), a British friend of the proletariat, takes a quite different tack regarding social Stratification. Replying to Malone, he argues that Dream demonstrates Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright; its ...
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... comic inspiration, J.W. Robinson (1964) looks to hybrid plays like Cambises, Damon and Pithias, and Histrio-Mastix, and to the Elizabethan pre-professional acting companies. Thelma N. Greenfield (1968) finds comparable allusions and ...
... comic inspiration, J.W. Robinson (1964) looks to hybrid plays like Cambises, Damon and Pithias, and Histrio-Mastix, and to the Elizabethan pre-professional acting companies. Thelma N. Greenfield (1968) finds comparable allusions and ...
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... comic energy from that collapse, which also produces the “rude” juxtapositions that highlight its ideological resonances. To examine the elisions and distortions generated by the evoking/quoting of sources is to unexpectedly align— at ...
... comic energy from that collapse, which also produces the “rude” juxtapositions that highlight its ideological resonances. To examine the elisions and distortions generated by the evoking/quoting of sources is to unexpectedly align— at ...
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... comic effects can flourish even in dark moments” (40). For Sheldon P. Zitner (1960), on the other hand, the play's primary structural principle is not awareness but avoidance, complications being suggested but then avoided. The ...
... comic effects can flourish even in dark moments” (40). For Sheldon P. Zitner (1960), on the other hand, the play's primary structural principle is not awareness but avoidance, complications being suggested but then avoided. The ...
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