A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler Routledge, 06/12/2012 - 506 من الصفحات 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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... sense. They bring dreams and are dreams. This argument dissolves into orientalism, misogny, and elitism. Gervinus first locates fairy land “in the aromatic flower-scented Indies, in the land where mortals live in a half-dreamy state ...
... sense. They bring dreams and are dreams. This argument dissolves into orientalism, misogny, and elitism. Gervinus first locates fairy land “in the aromatic flower-scented Indies, in the land where mortals live in a half-dreamy state ...
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... sense something uncanny in their situation, only Hippolyta comes close to sharing the spectators' awareness. Their perception of Oberon's benevolence towards the lovers provides “an environment in which comic effects can flourish even ...
... sense something uncanny in their situation, only Hippolyta comes close to sharing the spectators' awareness. Their perception of Oberon's benevolence towards the lovers provides “an environment in which comic effects can flourish even ...
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... sense of the oral, participatory nature of Elizabethan comedy; he thus uncovers the structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like ...
... sense of the oral, participatory nature of Elizabethan comedy; he thus uncovers the structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like ...
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... sense of the play as “lyric romantic comedy” devoid of the “shadow of death or danger” (133). The variety of styles ... senses of those words” (80), and a profusion of lists, which “like the reiterated images . . . serve to create a ...
... sense of the play as “lyric romantic comedy” devoid of the “shadow of death or danger” (133). The variety of styles ... senses of those words” (80), and a profusion of lists, which “like the reiterated images . . . serve to create a ...
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... sense” (101). Somewhat more—or less —broadly, Rene Girard (1979) attends to the animal imagery, violence, and ambiguous language, discovering a surface text (Theseus's) and a subtext (Hippolyta's). He concludes that in Dream, as in ...
... sense” (101). Somewhat more—or less —broadly, Rene Girard (1979) attends to the animal imagery, violence, and ambiguous language, discovering a surface text (Theseus's) and a subtext (Hippolyta's). He concludes that in Dream, as in ...
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