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• Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism, Dorothea Kehler A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mark Van Doren Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream, R.W. Dent Titania and the Ass's Head, Jan Kott "Jack Shall Have Jill / Nought Shall Go Ill, " Shirley Nelson Garner Deference and Accommodation, Theodore B. Leinwand Festive Theory, Annabel Patterson Censorship and Representation, Barbara Freedman A Kingdom of Shadows, Louis A. Montrose Textual Theory and Literary Interpretation, Janis Lull Comic Version of the Theseus Myth, Douglas Freake Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and Translation, Thomas Molsan Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes: A Rhetorical Reading, Christy Desmet Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The Interpretation of Dreams, Thelma N. Greenfield Chronotope and Repression, Susan Baker Preposterous Pleasures: Queer Theories, Douglas E. Green A Review of Ariane Mnouchkine's Le Songe d'une Nuit d' ft , 1968, Ann Friden Shakespeare at the Guthrie, 1975, Thomas Clayton Kenneth Branagh's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1990, Robert A. Logan Brecht and Beyond: Shakespeare on the East German Stage, 1971-1980, Lawrence Guntner A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nightmare or Gentle Snooze? 1970-1994, Mary Z. Maher Transposing Helena to Form and Dignity, 1994, Lisa J. Moore Marion McClinton's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse, 1995, Dorothea Kehler.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks, 154) Paperback – March 25, 1996

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• Print length 270 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Red Globe Press
• Publication date March 25, 1996
• Grade level 10 - 12
• Dimensions 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• ISBN-10 0333601971
• ISBN-13 978-0333601976
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Globe Press; 1996th edition (March 25, 1996)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0333601971
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0333601976
• Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 - 12
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• #1,122 in Shakespeare Literary Criticism
• #1,832 in Renaissance Literary Criticism (Books)
• #1,885 in Modern Literary Criticism

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks #154)

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This new casebook on A Midsummer Night's Dream traces the response of critical theory to a play peculiarly informed by modern preoccupations: imagination, representation and power, sexual repression and subjective transformation, patriarchal society, class structures and the limits of language. The essays collected here - New Critical, Marxist, feminist, New Historicist, cultural materialist, post-structuralist, performance - orientated and deconstructive - show the range of modern responses to these issues in the text. The introduction and endnotes on individual items elucidate the main themes and methodologies, showing how each item contributes to a vigorous wider debate about the Shakespearean text in modern culture.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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This play is considered one of Shakespeare's most flawless achievements, unique in being almost without precedent. The blending of the different plots and groups is masterful: the tension between the supernatural icons of male and female, Oberon and Titania, matches the premarital strains hinted between Theseus and his battlefield captive Hippolyta, partly resulting from her negative reaction to the analogous tension between Hermia and her father over his patriarchal choice of her spouse, which is in conflict with her own preference. The intervention of Puck as a kind of cosmic agent of confusion merely objectifies the volatility of the lovers, whose ominous behavior is parodied in the climactic performance of Pyramus and Thisbe staged by the amateurish workmen to celebrate the final happy weddings. The vagaries of human aspiration are epitomized by the bizarre experiences of the egotistical Bottom, transformed to an ass during his attempt at enacting romantic love, yet briefly becoming the paramour of a fairy queen. The lightness and charm of the piece have made it a favorite introduction to Shakespeare, as in our modernized version , but it has been visualized in a wide variety of ways, sometimes quite traditionally (see RSC 1962 ), sometimes extravagantly (see RSC 1970 ), but recently often with quite provocative sexual explicitness, as Jan Kott has proposed (see Romantic-influenced imaginings of the play of Henry Fuseli and Joseph Noel Paton ). However, it is almost impossible not to captivate audiences by the happy incompetence of the workmen's staging of Pyramus and Thisbe .

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