"Midsummer Night's Dream", Critical Essays (Innbundet (stive permer))

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essays focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

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