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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... things shows him in a truly artistic mood , too wise even to attempt things at all beyond his certain power . In one scene , though , the juvenility of character seems too great for any such explanation ; this is in the child - like ...
... things shows him in a truly artistic mood , too wise even to attempt things at all beyond his certain power . In one scene , though , the juvenility of character seems too great for any such explanation ; this is in the child - like ...
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... things were enough for the entertainment of the nobles and the maids of honour who assembled at Gloriana's palace of Greenwich . These things , therefore , we 335 EDMUND KERCHEVER CHAMBERS, the central idea, 1897.
... things were enough for the entertainment of the nobles and the maids of honour who assembled at Gloriana's palace of Greenwich . These things , therefore , we 335 EDMUND KERCHEVER CHAMBERS, the central idea, 1897.
Page 336
... things , therefore , we find in full measure in the play . They give it its tone and dramatic character.1 Yet the poet being Shakespeare , we do not , as in a modern burlesque , find these things and nothing more . For in Shakespeare ...
... things , therefore , we find in full measure in the play . They give it its tone and dramatic character.1 Yet the poet being Shakespeare , we do not , as in a modern burlesque , find these things and nothing more . For in Shakespeare ...
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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