A Midsummer Night's Dream

This book will show how the A Midsummer Night's Dream participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen.

Info autore

Dr Helen Hackett teaches English Literature at University College London. She was previously a tutor and research fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1994), and of a number of articles on women as readers and writers of romance in the Renaissance. She is a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Women and Literature 1500-1700 (forthcoming).

Riassunto

This book will show how the A Midsummer Night's Dream participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Hackett
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.01.1996
• EAN: 9780746307540
• ISBN: 978-0-7463-0754-0
• Pagine: 96
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 215 mm x 5 mm
• Peso: 158 g
• Illustrazioni: 10ill.
• Serie: Writers and Their Work; Writers & Their Work S.; Writers and Their Work (Paperb; Writers and Their Work
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese