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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... idea , which preeminently constitutes a work of art a living creation in the world of beauty ' ( I , x - xi ) . [ From Book III , Chapter VIII : ' Shakespeare's Idea of Tragedy and Comedy ' ] But even among comedies , in the narrower ...
... idea , which preeminently constitutes a work of art a living creation in the world of beauty ' ( I , x - xi ) . [ From Book III , Chapter VIII : ' Shakespeare's Idea of Tragedy and Comedy ' ] But even among comedies , in the narrower ...
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... idea which governs the whole play , and this is the great secret of his success in the presentation of it . He knew that he was to present merely shadows ; that spectators , as Puck reminds them in the epilogue , are to think they have ...
... idea which governs the whole play , and this is the great secret of his success in the presentation of it . He knew that he was to present merely shadows ; that spectators , as Puck reminds them in the epilogue , are to think they have ...
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... ideas , ideas that are a criticism of life . And therefore we may be sure that at the heart even of a dramatic fantasy by Shakespeare , there will lie some such central idea , which will give an inner meaning and unity to the whole ...
... ideas , ideas that are a criticism of life . And therefore we may be sure that at the heart even of a dramatic fantasy by Shakespeare , there will lie some such central idea , which will give an inner meaning and unity to the whole ...
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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