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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... conflicts over both the naming of 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 ...
... conflicts over both the naming of 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 ...
Pagina 31
... conflict of what in experience appear to be opposites” (48). James Calderwood's 1971 metadramatic treatment of Dream claims centrality for the exploration of dramatic illusion by blurring the boundaries between the natural and ...
... conflict of what in experience appear to be opposites” (48). James Calderwood's 1971 metadramatic treatment of Dream claims centrality for the exploration of dramatic illusion by blurring the boundaries between the natural and ...
Pagina 32
... conflict” (111) as part of the western tradition which, according to Denis de Rougemont, protects each lover from genuine communication and consequent disenchantment with the other. Noting the parallels between Pyramus and Thisbe and ...
... conflict” (111) as part of the western tradition which, according to Denis de Rougemont, protects each lover from genuine communication and consequent disenchantment with the other. Noting the parallels between Pyramus and Thisbe and ...
Pagina 33
... conflict between sexual desire and rational restraint is, then, an essential tension throughout the play reflected in the images of dark and light. This same tension exists in the nature of the fairies and of the forest” (88). The ...
... conflict between sexual desire and rational restraint is, then, an essential tension throughout the play reflected in the images of dark and light. This same tension exists in the nature of the fairies and of the forest” (88). The ...
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... lover, and the poet applauds imagination but “laughs at futile attempts to perceive, categorize, or express it” (74). According to Germaine Greer (1980) Dream presents a solution to the conflict between 34 Dorothea Kehler.
... lover, and the poet applauds imagination but “laughs at futile attempts to perceive, categorize, or express it” (74). According to Germaine Greer (1980) Dream presents a solution to the conflict between 34 Dorothea Kehler.
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