A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 7Judith M. Kennedy, Richard F. Kennedy This study traces the response to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Shakespeare's day to the present, including critics from Britain, Europe and America. |
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Page 166
... actions of the Heroes and Artizans should be considered completely subordinate , and their separate relations among themselves as not having been created relatively to the whole piece , but principally to the intended action of the ...
... actions of the Heroes and Artizans should be considered completely subordinate , and their separate relations among themselves as not having been created relatively to the whole piece , but principally to the intended action of the ...
Page 257
... action . He admires these men of action supremely , but he admires them from an outside point of view . ' These fellows of infinite tongue , ' says Henry , wooing the French princess , ' that can rhyme themselves into ladies ' favours ...
... action . He admires these men of action supremely , but he admires them from an outside point of view . ' These fellows of infinite tongue , ' says Henry , wooing the French princess , ' that can rhyme themselves into ladies ' favours ...
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... Action Furness asks why the play begins four days before the central action , the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta , and gives his answer . ] ... We can , in a case like this , but humbly suggest that as a most momentous issue was ...
... Action Furness asks why the play begins four days before the central action , the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta , and gives his answer . ] ... We can , in a case like this , but humbly suggest that as a most momentous issue was ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ELIZABETH GRIFFITH moral conventions and human sympathy 1775 | 59 |
SAMUEL FELTON artists interpretations of dramatic effects 1787 | 63 |
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