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 122
... less of the people . And here , without reviving the debated question of Shakespeare's learning , I must venture to think , that he possessed rather more acquaintance with the Latin language than many believe . The phrases ...
... less of the people . And here , without reviving the debated question of Shakespeare's learning , I must venture to think , that he possessed rather more acquaintance with the Latin language than many believe . The phrases ...
Page 224
... less strict manner , in a less intense development , that is all . Compare , for an illustration of this point , the Midsummer Night's Dream with The Tempest . The Beautiful has more variety in the expression , but the idea is the same ...
... less strict manner , in a less intense development , that is all . Compare , for an illustration of this point , the Midsummer Night's Dream with The Tempest . The Beautiful has more variety in the expression , but the idea is the same ...
Page 315
... less favorable to our notion that the play should be placed here in Shakespeare's artistic development . Certainly less individual than those of the Two Gentlemen of Verona , these characters seem almost less so than those of Love's ...
... less favorable to our notion that the play should be placed here in Shakespeare's artistic development . Certainly less individual than those of the Two Gentlemen of Verona , these characters seem almost less so than those of Love's ...
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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