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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... represents “symbolically the familiar workings of actual love in idleness in the human heart” (84). The pansy is Chambers's fleur de ma], love in the comic view being characterized by caprice, infidelity, irrationality, lawlessness, and ...
... represents “symbolically the familiar workings of actual love in idleness in the human heart” (84). The pansy is Chambers's fleur de ma], love in the comic view being characterized by caprice, infidelity, irrationality, lawlessness, and ...
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... represented reason and right rule; his victory over Hippolyta and the Amazons is a victory for hierarchy, marriage ... represents irrational passion; the mechanicals' world, the prosaic. The play assigns these worlds an order of ...
... represented reason and right rule; his victory over Hippolyta and the Amazons is a victory for hierarchy, marriage ... represents irrational passion; the mechanicals' world, the prosaic. The play assigns these worlds an order of ...
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... representing the misprized underclass, is indispensable to society's festive spirit and co-operative functioning ... represents the Elizabethan theater; “socially marginalized” and “disruptive,” he “is something like a funhouse mirror ...
... representing the misprized underclass, is indispensable to society's festive spirit and co-operative functioning ... represents the Elizabethan theater; “socially marginalized” and “disruptive,” he “is something like a funhouse mirror ...
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... represents all the characters treated as property, changed, or exchanged, as are Dream's spectators, who must “look to their eyes” (571). Louis Adrian Montrose in “Shaping Fantasies” (1983), one of the most influential essays on Dream ...
... represents all the characters treated as property, changed, or exchanged, as are Dream's spectators, who must “look to their eyes” (571). Louis Adrian Montrose in “Shaping Fantasies” (1983), one of the most influential essays on Dream ...
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... represented in Dream. Chapters 8-10 elaborate on his 1983 essay, “Shaping Fantasies.” To a greater or lesser extent, all the essays written for this anthology suggest that gender issues are central to the play. But Douglas E. Green ...
... represented in Dream. Chapters 8-10 elaborate on his 1983 essay, “Shaping Fantasies.” To a greater or lesser extent, all the essays written for this anthology suggest that gender issues are central to the play. But Douglas E. Green ...
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