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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... human suffering . Titania , in the speech which we have quoted , expresses her regret that their dissensions should influence with such sad fatalities the operations of ' human mortals ' [ 2.1.101 ] ; and Puck , though he is fond of ...
... human suffering . Titania , in the speech which we have quoted , expresses her regret that their dissensions should influence with such sad fatalities the operations of ' human mortals ' [ 2.1.101 ] ; and Puck , though he is fond of ...
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... human beings , but still grotesquely human - to the dreamland of the fairies . This dreamland , after all , is little further removed from the romantic introductory Athens of Theseus than that Athens itself was from the world where it ...
... human beings , but still grotesquely human - to the dreamland of the fairies . This dreamland , after all , is little further removed from the romantic introductory Athens of Theseus than that Athens itself was from the world where it ...
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... human heart . Boys in love change their minds just so , or almost just so , without any whisper of the fairies to guide them . Romeo left his Rosaline quite as suddenly as Lysander left his Hermia . It will help us to see the point of ...
... human heart . Boys in love change their minds just so , or almost just so , without any whisper of the fairies to guide them . Romeo left his Rosaline quite as suddenly as Lysander left his Hermia . It will help us to see the point of ...
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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