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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... poetic achievement in Dream may be equalled in the later works but is never surpassed. Here he creates atmosphere, in turn, charming, lush, and darkly erotic, through iterative imagery; distinguishes between character groups through ...
... poetic achievement in Dream may be equalled in the later works but is never surpassed. Here he creates atmosphere, in turn, charming, lush, and darkly erotic, through iterative imagery; distinguishes between character groups through ...
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... Poets may be allow'd the... liberty, for describing things which really exist not, if they are founded on popular belief: of this nature are Fairies, Pigmies, and the extraordinary effects of Magick: for 'tis still an imitation, though ...
... Poets may be allow'd the... liberty, for describing things which really exist not, if they are founded on popular belief: of this nature are Fairies, Pigmies, and the extraordinary effects of Magick: for 'tis still an imitation, though ...
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... poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1811-12), whose Shakespeare criticism is still influential, made two points about the play. The first, that Shakespeare thought of it as “a dream throughout,” led to further discussion later in ...
... poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1811-12), whose Shakespeare criticism is still influential, made two points about the play. The first, that Shakespeare thought of it as “a dream throughout,” led to further discussion later in ...
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... poet” speech and Hippolyta's response to it. Maginn regards Theseus as Shakespeare's voice and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences. Maginn was also responsible for the first character study of Bottom—“the lucky man, . . . on ...
... poet” speech and Hippolyta's response to it. Maginn regards Theseus as Shakespeare's voice and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences. Maginn was also responsible for the first character study of Bottom—“the lucky man, . . . on ...
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... poet,” and the conflation of the best and the worst dramas. Only insofar as the poet must awaken his audience's imagination does Theseus speak for Shakespeare. Henry A. Clapp (1885) returned to problems of duration (loss of a day) ...
... poet,” and the conflation of the best and the worst dramas. Only insofar as the poet must awaken his audience's imagination does Theseus speak for Shakespeare. Henry A. Clapp (1885) returned to problems of duration (loss of a day) ...
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