Shakespearean CriticismPresents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. |
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... Dream , " in A Midsummer Night's Dream : Critical Essays , edited by Dorothea Kehler , Garland Publishing , 1998 , pp . 369-97 . [ In the following essay , Green explores the homoerotic aspects of A Midsummer Night's Dream by examining ...
... Dream , " in A Midsummer Night's Dream : Critical Essays , edited by Dorothea Kehler , Garland Publishing , 1998 , pp . 369-97 . [ In the following essay , Green explores the homoerotic aspects of A Midsummer Night's Dream by examining ...
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... Dream " sanctions Oberon's attempt to take the boy from Titania and " to make a man of him " ; " notices the Oedipal implications of the struggle ( Oberon and the boy are rivals for Titania , who has forsworn Oberon's " bed and com ...
... Dream " sanctions Oberon's attempt to take the boy from Titania and " to make a man of him " ; " notices the Oedipal implications of the struggle ( Oberon and the boy are rivals for Titania , who has forsworn Oberon's " bed and com ...
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... dream - a dream founded on the starkest reality . Notes 1. All quotations from the play are taken from Harold F. Brooks ' Arden edition ( London : Methuen , 1979 ) . 2. Hughes , Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being ( London ...
... dream - a dream founded on the starkest reality . Notes 1. All quotations from the play are taken from Harold F. Brooks ' Arden edition ( London : Methuen , 1979 ) . 2. Hughes , Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being ( London ...
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