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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.>
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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; R.Dutton
'But We Are Spirits of Another Sort': The Dark Side of Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream; D.Bevington
A Midsummer Night's Dream; E.Krieger
'Hermia's Dream'; N.N.Holland
A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Jack shall have Jill
Nought shall go ill'; S.Nelson
Garner 'Shaping Fantasies': Figuration of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture; L.A.Montrose
'Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen'; P.McGuire
Gaining a Father: The Role of Egeus in the Quarto and the Folio; B.Hodgson
Bottom's Up: Festive Theory; A.Patterson
The Kindly Ones: The Death of The Author in Shakespearean Athens; R.Wilson Or; T.Hawkes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
