Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

by Nicolas Tredell

Overview

A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350316959
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/06/2010
Series:	Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	365 KB

About the Author

NICOLAS TREDELL is Consultant Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Readers' Guides series and has produced a number of Guides for the series. He has published widely on literary criticism and theory – his previous publications include: The Critical Decade (1993), Conversations with Critics (1994) and a history of film theory, Cinemas of the Mind (2002). For many years he has taught and convened Sussex University literature courses, most recently on Shakespeare.
Nicolas Tredell is an Independent Scholar, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Introduction
1662-1898: Labyrinth of Enchantment
1900-49: Quest for Constancy
The 1950s: Concord from Discord
The 1960s: Order and Outrage
The 1970s: Tongs and Bones
The 1980s: Shattering the Dream
The 1990s: Sifting the Fragments
The 2000s: Refiguring the Maze
Dream on Screen
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Select Filmography
Index.

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This is a helpful book: it identifies key critical accounts; it organises them effectively within a larger narrative that is not at all intrusive; it summarises them clearly and illustrates its summaries with well-chosen quotation. Its guidance is always helpful and balanced and the book provides overall a very good grounding in criticism of the play.' – Nick Potter, Swansea Metropolitan University, UK

'Tredell works through chronologically, summarising concisely and quoting effectively, giving a comprehensive account of the full range of criticism.' – John Haddon, The Use of English

Editorial Reviews

"This is a helpful book: it identifies key critical accounts; it organizes them effectively within a larger narrative that is not at all intrusive; it summarizes them clearly and illustrates its summaries with well-chosen quotation. Its guidance is always helpful and balanced and the book provides overall a very good grounding in criticism of the play." Nick Potter, Swansea Metropolitan University, UK

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"This is a helpful book: it identifies key critical accounts; it organizes them effectively within a larger narrative that is not at all intrusive; it summarizes them clearly and illustrates its summaries with well-chosen quotation. Its guidance is always helpful and balanced and the book provides overall a very good grounding in criticism of the play." Nick Potter, Swansea Metropolitan University, UK

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