A Midsummer Night's Dream Critical Essays [Paperback]

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism, Dorothea Kehler* AMidsummer Night's Dream, Mark Van DorenM* 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, DouglasFreake* 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 TheInterpretation 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, AnnFriden* 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* AMidsummer Night's Dream: Nightmare or Gentle Snooze? 1970-1994, Mary Z. Maher* Transposing Helena to Form and Dignity, 1994,