A Midsummer Night's Dream: Contemporary Critical Essays 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Dutton, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333601971 ISBN-13: 9780333601976 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1996 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
Dewey: 822 |
Series: New Casebooks |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 270 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This new casebook on A Midsummer Night's Dream traces the response of critical theory to a play peculiarly informed by modern preoccupations: imagination, representation and power, sexual repression and subjective transformation, patriarchal society, class structures and the limits of language. The essays collected here - New Critical, Marxist, feminist, New Historicist, cultural materialist, post-structuralist, performance - orientated and deconstructive - show the range of modern responses to these issues in the text. The introduction and endnotes on individual items elucidate the main themes and methodologies, showing how each item contributes to a vigorous wider debate about the Shakespearean text in modern culture. |