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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"A Midsummer Night's Dream"”.
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The puzzle of the indian boy in a Midsummer Night's Dream
The Puzzle of the Indian Boy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” challenges interpretations of the play which posit an east Indian prince and an east Indian location for Titania’s lengthy description of “India” in Act Two, Scene One. Such interpretations appear to have originated in Purcell’s late 17th …
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Behind the Stakes, Between the Lines, Beyond the Pun: A Critical Deconstruction of Humor in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Other Popular Comedies
… and cross-dressing. William Shakespeare’s <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em> (ca. 1595) serves as a key text, but films and television series including <em>Star Wars</em> (20th Century Fox, 1977, 1983), <em>Young Frankenstein</em> (20th Century Fox, 1974), and <em>Doctor Who</em> (BBC,1963- ), …
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"The forms of things unknown: The impact of Reginald Scot's skeptical treatise, ""The Discoverie of Witchcraft"", on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""King Lear"", and ""The Tempest"""
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The Lyrical Strain in Shakespeare's Early Dramas
… his statement that |"With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, it (Richard the Second) belongs to the period of a deliberate literary experiment. For the space of a tragedy, a comedy, and a history, Shakespeare essayed to write drama in the lyrical vein, with his singing robe a on, with …
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Lessons of Vocal Coaching Shakespeare in Hollywood: A Production Analysis
… of Shakespearean verse, especially that in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and how Ludwig synthesized Shakespeare's verse with that of his own.Chapter two is divided into an account of the rehearsal process; a description of my sessions with the individual actors and an exploration of the dynamics …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… on Dawn French's 2001 turn as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. This production changed the gender of the character to negate the controversial implications of women's cross-gender performance; yet French's portrayal nonetheless explored the queer implications of Bottom's relationship …
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Erotic Love and the Development of Proto -Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy
… licitness of Hermia's desire for Lysader in A Midsummer Night's Dream depends upon her acceptance of his ""sovereignty"" over her soul (1.1.81-82). The gratifications of marriage are the highest reward for male labor. The male characters of the community gain wealth and erotic delight when they …
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
In this study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure I argue that the surface plots of these comedies point us to a philosophic understanding seldom discussed in either contemporary public discourse or in Shakespearean scholarship. The comedies usually involve …
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An annotated edition of the selected correspondence of Maud, Lady Tree: 1880-1917
… focuses on Tree's Shakespearean production, A Midsummer Night's Dream, to analyze Maud's acting capability, recording her first acting success in 1883. Section (iii) analyzes Maud's experience as theatre director of the Wyndham and her production of three plays: Caesar's Wife, Irish Assurance …
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Shakespeare on South African television
… Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice (1987). The SABC has also televised two stage productions by performing arts councils; these are Romeo en Juliet (1982) and The Winter's Tale (1988). The …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
… case in such comedies as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elements of the green world can also be found in Shakespearean tragedy, where the natural retreat serves as a temporary escape for the protagonists. Such a green world exists in three of the most well known examples of …
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night and examine the forms of passion in compelling topoi that attend love in the plays - Petrarchan tropes powerfully linked to early modem ideas of representation (especially …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
… complex engagement with futurity.</p><p>In A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example, Helena initiates a material futurity when she chases down the scornful Demetrius in the woods outside Athens and promises him that she will write a "story" that "shall" change the future of female lovers …
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Sweet disaster: development of Shakespearean tragicomedy
… heroes and heroines of earlier plays like <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> and <em>As You Like It</em>, and because they do not share enough common characteristics with the final plays like <em>The Winter’s Tale</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> to be studied as romances. Despite inherent …
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"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition
<p>This thesis provides a critical edition of M.G. Lewis's "Oberon's Henchman" with an introduction to the text that recontextualizes the poem within its historical milieu. The introduction also presents a critical reading of the text, arguing that Lewis's pastiche is a carefully orchestrated, …