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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... metaphor. He points out that the very language Theseus uses contradicts his low opinion of the poet. Rather, the play is an apologia for imagination and dreaming, a celebration of the poet's ability to reveal new ways of seeing. Joan ...
... metaphor. He points out that the very language Theseus uses contradicts his low opinion of the poet. Rather, the play is an apologia for imagination and dreaming, a celebration of the poet's ability to reveal new ways of seeing. Joan ...
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... metaphor is itself a process of transposing, a kind of metamorphosis” (135). Dream is no “dream throughout,” as Coleridge held but rather very much a play, parodied in Pyramus and Thisbe, whose prologues derive from the mummers' plays ...
... metaphor is itself a process of transposing, a kind of metamorphosis” (135). Dream is no “dream throughout,” as Coleridge held but rather very much a play, parodied in Pyramus and Thisbe, whose prologues derive from the mummers' plays ...
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... metaphor or “explanatory trope” (77) for both the disruption of nature and the irrationality of love. Bottom, who cannot distinguish between reality and play, is unchanged by his encounter with the supernatural, so he and the other ...
... metaphor or “explanatory trope” (77) for both the disruption of nature and the irrationality of love. Bottom, who cannot distinguish between reality and play, is unchanged by his encounter with the supernatural, so he and the other ...
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... metaphor or facade for a buried reality of sexual drives and anxieties or for Bottom's “hidden” nature. From another perspective, rather than serving as censoring and disguising devices, dreams are valid verbal, visual, and emotional ...
... metaphor or facade for a buried reality of sexual drives and anxieties or for Bottom's “hidden” nature. From another perspective, rather than serving as censoring and disguising devices, dreams are valid verbal, visual, and emotional ...
Pagina 41
... metaphor of basic trust that enables the warring and uncertain lovers to arrive at mature sexuality” (136). Allen ... metaphors of authority as expressions of the repressive mechanism shaping social reality by selective deletion ...
... metaphor of basic trust that enables the warring and uncertain lovers to arrive at mature sexuality” (136). Allen ... metaphors of authority as expressions of the repressive mechanism shaping social reality by selective deletion ...
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