A Midsummer Night's Dream : critical essays

General Editor's Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xiii

I. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Critics
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism
Dorothea Kehler 3

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mark Van Doren 77

Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream
R. W. Dent 85

Titania and the Ass's Head
Jan Kott 107

A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought
Shall Go III"
ShirleyNelson Garner 127

"I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out": Deference and
Accommodation in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theodore B. Leinwand 145

Bottom's Up: Festive Theory in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Annabel Patterson 165

Dis/Figuring Power: Censorship and Representation in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Barbara Freedman 179

A Kingdom of Shadows
LouisA. Montrose 217

Textual Theory, Literary Interpretation, and the Last Act of A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Janis Lull 241

A Midsummer Night's Dream as a Comic Version of the
Theseus Myth
Douglas Freake 259

Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and
Translation in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thomas Moisan 275

Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes:
A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Christy Desmet 299

Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The
Interpretation of Dreams
Thelma N. Greenf eld 331

Brecht and Beyond: Shakespeare on the East Gerrnan Stage
[1971-1980]
Lawrence Guntner 421

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nightrnare or Gentle Snooze?
[1970-1994]
Mary Z. Maher 429

Transposing Helena to Form and Dignity [1994]
Lisa J. Moore 453

Marion McClinton's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the La
Jolla Playhouse, 1995: Appropriation Through
Performance
Dorothea Kehler 473