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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... eyes of the stars , now wet with tears , now bright with rapture . They have the abandonment of true love , not the grossness of sensual love . Nothing causes us to fall from the ideal world in which Shakespeare conducts us . Dazzled by ...
... eyes of the stars , now wet with tears , now bright with rapture . They have the abandonment of true love , not the grossness of sensual love . Nothing causes us to fall from the ideal world in which Shakespeare conducts us . Dazzled by ...
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... eyes water ere now ' [ 3.2.194ff . ] . Fingers and eyes ! How the gross , the physical side of human nature , comes to the front ! And those fingers and eyes have other senses to match them , - ears that delight in the tongs and the ...
... eyes water ere now ' [ 3.2.194ff . ] . Fingers and eyes ! How the gross , the physical side of human nature , comes to the front ! And those fingers and eyes have other senses to match them , - ears that delight in the tongs and the ...
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... eyes figure unheedy haste : And therefore is Love said to be a child , Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd ... eye . - - What is the effect of this sixfold division ? Let it be recalled that , in listening to uttered speech , altho ...
... eyes figure unheedy haste : And therefore is Love said to be a child , Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd ... eye . - - What is the effect of this sixfold division ? Let it be recalled that , in listening to uttered speech , altho ...
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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