A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 7Judith M. Kennedy, Richard F. Kennedy A&C Black, 1. 10. 1999 - 488 strán (strany) 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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1 Moral conventions and human sympathy 1775 | 59 |
2 Artists interpretations of dramatic effects 1787 | 63 |
3 Commentary on A Midsummer Nights Dream 1790 | 66 |
4 Bottom as coxcomb 1792 | 70 |
5 Response to Malone 1793 | 74 |
6 Illustrations of some passages 1794 | 76 |
7 His fertile and creative fancy 1800 | 79 |
45 Bottom an ass but no fool 1873 | 238 |
46 A Midsummer Nights Dream as masque 1874 | 241 |
the Real the Ideal and the Representation 1874 | 245 |
48 Shakespeare differentiated from Bacon 1875 | 253 |
49 Theseus as the central figure 1875 | 256 |
50 A comedy of incident 1875 | 259 |
51 Consummation of Shakespeares lyrical genius 1876 | 262 |
52 Bottom a selfmade man 1876 | 264 |
8 On metre invention and a unified whole 1815 | 81 |
9 Unity of feeling and of imagery and the fairies 1817 | 84 |
10 Bottom Puck and the incompatibility of poetry and the stage 1817 | 90 |
11 Malones last words 1821 | 94 |
12 Mainly on the fairies 1824 | 97 |
13 The fairy world the clowns the poetry 1828 | 101 |
14 New actors on the mimic scenethe fairies 1828 | 105 |
15 Marginalia and other notes 1836 | 108 |
16 Bottom the lucky man 1837 | 111 |
17 Critics refuted 1838 | 118 |
18 Originality in structure machinery and language 1839 | 121 |
19 The Pictorial Edition of A Midsummer Nights Dream 1839 | 123 |
20 The poets dream 1840 | 130 |
21 Anachronisms Nick Bottom as Midas and stage representation 1841 | 132 |
22 Oberons Vision allegorized 1843 | 137 |
23 Fairy drama and human nature 1843 | 142 |
24 Poet of the Fairies 1844 | 145 |
25 A comment with some explanatory notes 1845 | 148 |
26 The theme of selfparody 1846 | 153 |
27 Introductory remarks 1847 | 157 |
28 The sister arts and the plays structural balance 1848 | 162 |
29 A festival of dainties 1851 | 168 |
30 The Dream and Art 1851 1872 1883 1884 | 173 |
31 A most charming entertainment of the stage 1853 | 177 |
32 Samuel Phelpss Bottom 1853 | 181 |
33 Dramatic and poetic art 1854 | 184 |
34 Dialogue with a sceptic 1854 | 190 |
35 Critical remarks on the play 1856 | 197 |
36 Celtic elements 1859 | 203 |
37 Genre and inner purpose 1863 | 206 |
38 Intuitive power of characterization 1863 | 214 |
39 The plays limitations 1864 | 217 |
40 The sacred mysteries in the play 1865 | 219 |
41 The secret meaning of the Interlude 1865 | 225 |
42 The perfection of imbecilic clowns 1866 | 229 |
43 Not critics but lowly worshippers of the Beautiful 1869 | 232 |
44 The theme is love 1871 | 235 |
53 The full glow of fancy and fun 1877 | 267 |
54 The wood is the world 1879 | 270 |
55 Titania and Ovid 1880 | 274 |
56 A Platonic reading 1884 | 277 |
57 Interpreting the spoken verse 1885 | 281 |
58 Observations on the lovers and the mechanicals 1886 | 288 |
59 Poet rather than dramatist 1888 | 292 |
60 Source of the plays popularity 1888 | 295 |
61 Classical and modern 1890 | 298 |
62 Reason and desire in Oberon and Titania 1890 | 303 |
63 The development of morality and art 1891 | 307 |
64 A true work of art 1894 | 313 |
65 The duration of the action 1895 | 317 |
66 Life and art 1895 | 321 |
67 Daly and the idea of titivation 1895 | 324 |
68 Remarks on the play and modern education 1895 | 328 |
69 Theseus Bottom and the Interlude 1896 | 332 |
70 The central idea 1897 | 335 |
71 The airy dream 1898 | 339 |
72 Illusion realism and imagination 1900 | 343 |
73 Dream visions 1903 | 346 |
74 A comedy of situation and enchantment 1903 | 353 |
75 Shakespeares working classes 1903 | 357 |
76 The atmosphere of the play 1904 | 360 |
77 Love dreamland and Helena 1905 | 365 |
78 The theme of illusion 1907 | 368 |
79 The nature and sources of the play 1908 | 370 |
80 The most beautiful work of man 1909 | 373 |
81 Shakespeares conception of his art 1911 | 374 |
82 Screeds of wordmusic 1914 | 378 |
Puck Oberon and Titania 1916 | 381 |
84 The dreams validity 1917 | 383 |
85 Comedy of love 1920 | 386 |
NOTES | 389 |
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