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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... object to this , indeed we are inclined to believe that he has pretty exactly indicated the precise year , as far as it can be proved by one or two allusions which the play contains . But we entirely object to the reasons upon which ...
... object to this , indeed we are inclined to believe that he has pretty exactly indicated the precise year , as far as it can be proved by one or two allusions which the play contains . But we entirely object to the reasons upon which ...
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... object , then the desire may attach itself to a new object , and therewith the imagination , the fancy , the love . And the end of inconstancy is , that desire attaches itself to some altogether unworthy object , which the reason knows ...
... object , then the desire may attach itself to a new object , and therewith the imagination , the fancy , the love . And the end of inconstancy is , that desire attaches itself to some altogether unworthy object , which the reason knows ...
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... object of Capricious Love or Gentle Satire ; in Hamlet he is the object of Revenge ; in The Tempest he is the object of Forgiveness . ( 3 ) All have a play - within - the - play , or anti - masque ; that is , a work of art as one of the ...
... object of Capricious Love or Gentle Satire ; in Hamlet he is the object of Revenge ; in The Tempest he is the object of Forgiveness . ( 3 ) All have a play - within - the - play , or anti - masque ; that is , a work of art as one of the ...
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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