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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... living life in the world as the world is ' ( 117 ) . His perception of the play , and even the terms which he uses to describe it , differ little from the view of E.K. Chambers in 1897 ( No. 70 ) . His opposition of Theseus's ' cool ...
... living life in the world as the world is ' ( 117 ) . His perception of the play , and even the terms which he uses to describe it , differ little from the view of E.K. Chambers in 1897 ( No. 70 ) . His opposition of Theseus's ' cool ...
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... 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 sense of the word , there is a considerable difference ...
... 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 sense of the word , there is a considerable difference ...
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... living one . But the common epithet of opprobrium is justly bestowed , and marks a right feeling . A wall has no business to be dead . It ought to have members in its make , [ 2 ] and purposes in its existence , like an organised ...
... living one . But the common epithet of opprobrium is justly bestowed , and marks a right feeling . A wall has no business to be dead . It ought to have members in its make , [ 2 ] and purposes in its existence , like an organised ...
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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