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"Midsummer Night's Dream"
Hackett
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Description for "Midsummer Night's Dream"
Paperback.
Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This book will show how the play participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen. However, it is also very much a play about procreative change, set at one of the ‘green hinges’ of the year, to use Angela Carter’s phrase. The happy ending is marked by multiple marriages; and yet, these marriages have been achieved through conflict and force. Comedy veers close to tragedy, and vice versa in ... Read more
Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This book will show how the play participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen. However, it is also very much a play about procreative change, set at one of the ‘green hinges’ of the year, to use Angela Carter’s phrase. The happy ending is marked by multiple marriages; and yet, these marriages have been achieved through conflict and force. Comedy veers close to tragedy, and vice versa in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746307540
SKU
V9780746307540
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Ref
99-15
About Hackett
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 ... Read more
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