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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... erotic, through iterative imagery; distinguishes between 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 ...
... erotic, through iterative imagery; distinguishes between 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 ...
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... erotic imagination” (67), that Shakespeare “early felt and divined how much wider is the domain of the unconscious than of the conscious life, and saw that our moods and passions have their root in the unconscious” (71). Frederick S ...
... erotic imagination” (67), that Shakespeare “early felt and divined how much wider is the domain of the unconscious than of the conscious life, and saw that our moods and passions have their root in the unconscious” (71). Frederick S ...
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... erotic combat by usurping the language of the love sonnet. More profoundly, Titania rewrites Ovidian myth to celebrate women's friendship and sexuality, and Hippolyta articulates a feminine aesthetic that gives meaning to the lovers ...
... erotic combat by usurping the language of the love sonnet. More profoundly, Titania rewrites Ovidian myth to celebrate women's friendship and sexuality, and Hippolyta articulates a feminine aesthetic that gives meaning to the lovers ...
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... erotic discourse and physical desire. Whereas the ritualistic language of love presents the would-be lover with a limited number of roles, all of which express desire in economic A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 3 5.
... erotic discourse and physical desire. Whereas the ritualistic language of love presents the would-be lover with a limited number of roles, all of which express desire in economic A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 3 5.
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... erotic desire, is constantly mocked, the play's couplings being subject to radical reversals. The interference of the fairies demonstrates the social construction of desire (and of identity itself), ironically perceived as “natural” (22) ...
... erotic desire, is constantly mocked, the play's couplings being subject to radical reversals. The interference of the fairies demonstrates the social construction of desire (and of identity itself), ironically perceived as “natural” (22) ...
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