A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler Psychology Press, 1998 - 490 pages 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. |
Contents
A Bibliographic Survey of | 3 |
A Kingdom of Shadows | 44 |
Shakespeare on the East German Stage | 67 |
Mark Van Doren | 77 |
Imagination in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 85 |
Titania and the Asss Head | 107 |
Jack Shall Have Jill Nought | 127 |
Deference | 145 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream as a Comic Version of | 259 |
Elisions Allusion | 275 |
Shakespeares Dream Without | 331 |
Chronotope and Repression in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 345 |
Queer Theories and A Midsummer | 369 |
Ann Fridén | 401 |
Kenneth Branaghs A Midsummer Nights Dream 1990 | 417 |
Lawrence Guntner | 421 |
Festive Theory in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 165 |
Censorship and Representation | 179 |
Louis A Montrose | 217 |
Textual Theory Literary Interpretation and the Last Act of | 241 |
Nightmare or Gentle Snooze? | 429 |
Transposing Helena to Form and Dignity 1994 | 453 |
Marion McClintons A Midsummer Nights Dream at the | 473 |
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References to this book
Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Student Casebook to Issues ... Faith Nostbakken No preview available - 2003 |