Judith M Kennedy

"Midsummer Night's Dream" - Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition S. Judith M Kennedy

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-435) and index. Biographical Note: Judith M. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, US. Richard F. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, US. Table of Contents: Series Introduction -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Key Passages in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- List of Characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Criticism Through the Ages -- Sources of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Seventeenth Century -- 1633-from L'Allegro / John Milton -- 1692-from The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- 1692-(attributed to Elkanah Settle), from The Fairy Queen Anonymous A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Eighteenth Century -- 1708-from Roscius Anglicanus / John Downes -- 1765-from Reliques of Ancient English Poetry / Thomas Percy -- 1765-A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Notes on Shakespeare's Plays / Samuel Johnson -- A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Nineteenth Century -- 1809-from A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, tr. John Black / August Wilhelm von Schlegel -- 1817-The Midsummer Night's Dream, from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt -- 1838-from Shakspeare / Thomas DeQuincey -- 1845-Midsummer-Night's Dream, from Shakespeare Commentaries / G. G. Gervinus -- 1872-from Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden -- 1880-A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters / H. N. Hudson -- A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Twentieth Century -- 1904-A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Chesterton on Shakespeare / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- 1939-A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Shakespeare / Mark Van Doren -- 1951-A Midsummer-Night's Dream, from The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold Goddard -- 1959-May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night, from Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and its Relation to Social Custom / C. L. Barber -- 1974-A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Shakespeare's Comedy of Love / Alexander Leggatt -- 1980-Fancy's Images, from Comic Transformations in Shakespeare / Ruth Nevo -- 1986-The Bottomless Dream, from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare / Northrop Frye -- 1987-Introduction, from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom -- 1998-The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Shakespeare and Carnival After Bakhtin / David Wiles -- A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Twenty-first Century -- 2003-'When Everything Seems Double': Peter Quince, the Other Playwright in A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Shakespeare Survey, vol. 56 / A. B. Taylor -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Publisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Kennedy, Judith M Judith M. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, US. Contributor Bio:  Kennedy, Richard F Judith M. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus at St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, US.