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A Midsummer night's dream / edited by Richard Dutton.

Contributor(s): Dutton, RichardMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: New casebooks seriesPublication details: London : Macmillan, c1996. Description: ix, 270 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0333601971 Paper back; 0333601963 Subject(s): English literature | ComedyDDC classification: 822.33P7-8 Online resources: WorldCat details
Contents:
TOC 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
Summary: Summary: This 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. Read less
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Text Text Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
Reserve Section 		Fiction 822.33P7-8 MID 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan 18332
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Includes Bibliographical References and Index.

TOC 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

Summary:
This 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. Read less

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