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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... role of the mythological, while Madeleine Doran (1962) discusses post-Ovidian versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story-a twelfth-century Norman lay and a sixteenth-century Italian retelling. Shakespeare, she believes, would have known ...
... role of the mythological, while Madeleine Doran (1962) discusses post-Ovidian versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story-a twelfth-century Norman lay and a sixteenth-century Italian retelling. Shakespeare, she believes, would have known ...
Pagina 20
... role of dance in A Midsummer Night's Dream: “ . . . Shakespeare made dancing an essential part of the plot, a summarising action and a universal symbol [of concord] instead of merely leaving it the delectable embellishment it might have ...
... role of dance in A Midsummer Night's Dream: “ . . . Shakespeare made dancing an essential part of the plot, a summarising action and a universal symbol [of concord] instead of merely leaving it the delectable embellishment it might have ...
Pagina 25
... that Theseus speaks for Shakespeare on the role of imagination. Basing his argument on adjectives applied to Titania, Donald C. Miller (1940) anticipates sexualized readings in his A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 25.
... that Theseus speaks for Shakespeare on the role of imagination. Basing his argument on adjectives applied to Titania, Donald C. Miller (1940) anticipates sexualized readings in his A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism 25.
Pagina 37
... role of the audience that, like the dreamer, creates, participates, and watches all at once, transcending the unbelievable illogicalities of stage illusion. Greenfield points out that, through strong images of female worlds, Dream opens ...
... role of the audience that, like the dreamer, creates, participates, and watches all at once, transcending the unbelievable illogicalities of stage illusion. Greenfield points out that, through strong images of female worlds, Dream opens ...
Pagina 44
... role of the theater, catering to neither the nobility nor the Puritans. Louis A. Montrose, in “A Kingdom of Shadows” (1995), reprinted in this volume and somewhat expanded in chapter 11 of his The Purpose of Playing (1996), describes ...
... role of the theater, catering to neither the nobility nor the Puritans. Louis A. Montrose, in “A Kingdom of Shadows” (1995), reprinted in this volume and somewhat expanded in chapter 11 of his The Purpose of Playing (1996), describes ...
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