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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... writer , novelist , essayist , journalist , satirist , wit , and radical reformer received little formal schooling , and ... writing , publishing some verse , having a play produced in 1821 by Sadler's Wells , and contributing to various ...
... writer , novelist , essayist , journalist , satirist , wit , and radical reformer received little formal schooling , and ... writing , publishing some verse , having a play produced in 1821 by Sadler's Wells , and contributing to various ...
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... writing plays when he was twenty , producing some notable successes from 1902 , in his twenty - fifth year , to 1910. However , his talents were best employed in directing and in writing criticism . His productions of The Winter's Tale ...
... writing plays when he was twenty , producing some notable successes from 1902 , in his twenty - fifth year , to 1910. However , his talents were best employed in directing and in writing criticism . His productions of The Winter's Tale ...
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... writing of lyric poetry will satisfy ! If it was he made the English theatre , did not the theatre make him what - he is what he might be to us ? Next come the clowns . It is necessary , I am ashamed to say , to remark , that Clown does ...
... writing of lyric poetry will satisfy ! If it was he made the English theatre , did not the theatre make him what - he is what he might be to us ? Next come the clowns . It is necessary , I am ashamed to say , to remark , that Clown does ...
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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