A Midsummer Night's Dream: Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333601976 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 270 str.

Richard Dutton

Opis

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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Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; R.Dutton.- 'But We Are Spirits of Another Sort': The Dark Side of Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream; D.Bevington.- A Midsummer Night's Dream; E.Krieger.- 'Hermia's Dream'; N.N.Holland.- A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Jack shall have Jill.- Nought shall go ill'; S.Nelson.- Garner 'Shaping Fantasies': Figuration of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture; L.A.Montrose.- 'Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen'; P.McGuire.- Gaining a Father: The Role of Egeus in the Quarto and the Folio; B.Hodgson.- Bottom's Up: Festive Theory; A.Patterson.- The Kindly Ones: The Death of The Author in Shakespearean Athens; R.Wilson Or; T.Hawkes.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.