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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 130. )INTRODUCTION Likely written sometime between 1594 and 1596, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. It centers on the romantic entanglement between four young Athenian lovers: Hermia and...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 58. )INTRODUCTION Believed to have been written circa 1594, A Midsummer Night's Dream follows the comic adventures of four lovers in a wood populated by fairies who are busy trying to sort out their own romantic differences....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 121. )INTRODUCTION Likely written in the middle of the 1590s, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fanciful dramatic piece featuring one of Shakespeare's most original comic plots. Its central story concerns a quartet of young...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 12. )Throughout the stage history of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a crucial concern of actors and directors has been how to meet the disparate demands of this, perhaps Shakespeare's most ethereal, play. A celebration of...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 70. )INTRODUCTION One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream is often considered a lighthearted comedy. It traces the romantic escapades of four young Athenian lovers lost on a midsummer night in a...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 102. )INTRODUCTION One of Shakespeare's early plays, written sometime between 1594 and 1596, A Midsummer Night's Dream has long been one of his most popular. The action takes place on the eve of the summer solstice, an...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Shaksperian StudiesOdell assembles the available information regarding the two Park Theatre productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, providing an overview of these earliest American stagings of the play. 158] Mr. Richings should not say...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 139. )INTRODUCTION A Midsummer Night's Dream was one of Shakespeare's early plays, written sometime between 1594 and 1596; it has always been one of his most popular works, as well as one of the most frequently adapted. The...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 82. )INTRODUCTION One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream is believed to have been written in the early part of Shakespeare's career, sometime between 1594 and 1596. The title places the action of...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Sothern and MarloweShattuck provides an overview of Daly's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with special attention given to the reactions of Daly's contemporaries to the text, settings, and performances of the several revivals....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 92. )INTRODUCTION Written and first performed circa 1595, A Midsummer Night's Dream is generally regarded as a fanciful comedy concerned with the subject of romantic love, although many modern critics have also recognized...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 45. )INTRODUCTION The role of dreams in A Midsummer Night's Dream is of primary interest to critics who wish to uncover the relationships between dreams and the reality of the play's world, as well as between dreams and the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 112. )INTRODUCTION Likely written in the middle of the 1590s, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fanciful dramatic piece featuring one of Shakespeare's most original comic plots. Its central story concerns a quartet of young...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 152. )INTRODUCTION One of Shakespeare's earlier comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream was first published in a quarto edition in 1600 but was likely written between mid 1594 and 1596. Drawing on mythological and fantastic...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 29. )INTRODUCTION Critical interest in A Midsummer Night's Dream has been strong since the early years of the nineteenth century. Early critics were particularly concerned with the play's structure, with its portrayal of...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Yale/theatreWilliams provides an overview of the 1816 Covent Garden revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream, paying particular attention to the music of this production. Some seven other song-settings are not credited in the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Shakesperian StudiesOdell provides an overview and comparison of the two New York productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1 have no doubt that it was inspired by the success of Samuel Phelps at Sadler's Wells, in 1853, but I have been...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 3. )DATE: Scholars generally agree that A Mid.smnimer Night’.s Dream was written and first performed sometime between 1594 and 1596. The earliest known reference to the play is in Francis Mere's Palladi,s ‘Tmia,i (1598)....Found in Shakespearean Criticism