A midsummer night's dream / edited by Judith M. Kennedy and Richard F. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Judith M.

Kennedy, Richard F., 1933-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare, the critical tradition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.

Shakespeare, William.

Comedy.

Local Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.

Physical Description:

xxi, 461 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the United States by Transaction Publishers, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Moral conventions and human sympathy, 1775 / Elizabeth Griffith 59

2 Artists' interpretations of dramatic effects, 1787 / Samuel Felton 63

3 Commentary on A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1790 / Edmond Malone 66

4 Bottom as coxcomb, 1792 / Charles Taylor 70

5 Response to Malone, 1793 / George Steevens 74

6 Illustrations of some passages, 1794 / Walter Whiter 76

7 His fertile and creative fancy, 1800 / Charles Dibdin 79

8 On metre, invention, and a unified whole, 1815 / August Wilhelm von Schlegel 81

9 Unity of feeling and of imagery, and the fairies, 1817 / Nathan Drake 84

10 Bottom, Puck, and the incompatibility of poetry and the stage, 1817 / William Hazlitt 90

11 Malone's last words, 1821 / James Boswell, Edmond Malone 94

12 Mainly on the fairies, 1824 / Augustine Skottowe 97

13 The fairy world, the clowns, the poetry, 1828 / George Daniel 101

14 New actors on the mimic scene-the fairies, 1828 / Thomas Keightley 105

15 Marginalia and other notes, 1836 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 108

16 Bottom the lucky man, 1837 / William Maginn 111

17 Critics refuted, 1838 / Thomas Campbell 118

18 Originality in structure, machinery, and language, 1839 / Henry Hallam 121

19 The Pictorial Edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1839 / Charles Knight 123

20 The poet's dream, 1840 / William Spalding 130

21 Anachronisms, Nick Bottom as Midas, and stage representation, 1841 / James Orchard Halliwell 132

22 Oberon's Vision allegorized, 1843 / Nicholas John Halpin 137

23 Fairy drama and human nature, 1843 / Bryan Waller Procter 142

24 Poet of the Fairies, 1844 / Leigh Hunt 145

25 A comment, with some explanatory notes, 1845 / Joseph Hunter 148

26 The theme of self-parody, 1846 / Hermann Ulrici 153

27 Introductory remarks, 1847 / Gulian Crommelin Ver Planck 157

28 The sister arts, and the play's structural balance, 1848 / Henry James Sumner Maine 162

29 A festival of dainties, 1851 / Henry Norman Hudson 168

30 The Dream and Art, 1851, 1872, 1883, 1884 / John Ruskin 173

31 A most charming entertainment of the stage, 1853 / Henry Morley 177

32 Samuel Phelps's Bottom, 1853 / Douglas William Jerrold 181

33 Dramatic and poetic art, 1854 / Richard Grant White 184

34 Dialogue with a sceptic, 1854 / Edward Strachey 190

35 Critical remarks on the play, 1856 / William Watkiss Lloyd 197

36 Celtic elements, 1859 / Anonymous 203

37 Genre and inner purpose, 1863 / Georg Gottfried Gervinus 206

38 Intuitive power of characterization, 1863 / Charles Cowden Clarke 214

39 The play's limitations, 1864 / Thomas Kenny 217

40 The sacred mysteries in the play, 1865 / John Abraham Heraud 219

41 The secret meaning of the Interlude, 1865 / Ethan Allen Hitchcock 225

42 The perfection of imbecilic clowns, 1866 / Abner Otis Kellogg 229

43 Not critics, but lowly worshippers of the Beautiful, 1869 / Mary Preston 232

44 The theme is love, 1871 / Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 235

45 Bottom

an ass, but no fool, 1873 / Daniel Wilson 238

46 A Midsummer Night's Dream as masque, 1874 / Karl Elze 241

47 Self-reflexive structure: the Real, the Ideal, and the Representation, 1874 / Denton Jacques Snider 245

48 Shakespeare differentiated from Bacon, 1875 / George Wilkes 253

49 Theseus as the central figure, 1875 / Edward Dowden 256

50 A comedy of incident, 1875 / Adolphus William Ward 259

51 Consummation of Shakespeare's lyrical genius, 1876 / Algernon Charles Swinburne 262

52 Bottom, a self-made man, 1876 / John Weiss 264

53 The full glow of fancy and fun, 1877 / Frederick James Furnivall 267

54 The wood is the world, 1879 / Charles Ebenezer Moyse 270

55 Titania and Ovid, 1880 / Thomas Spencer Baynes 274

56 A Platonic reading, 1884 / William Francis C. Wigston 277

57 Interpreting the spoken verse, 1885 / Grace Latham 281

58 Observations on the lovers and the mechanicals, 1886 / Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer 288

59 Poet rather than dramatist, 1888 / Francis Albert Marshall 292

60 Source of the play's popularity, 1888 / George Edgar Montgomery 295

61 Classical and modern, 1890 / Julia Wedgwood 298

62 Reason and desire in Oberon and Titania, 1890 / Charles Downing 303

63 The development of morality and art, 1891 / Sidney Clopton Lanier 307

64 A true work of art, 1894 / Barrett Wendell 313

65 The duration of the action, 1895 / Horace Howard Furness 317

66 Life and art, 1895 / Katharine Lee Bates 321

67 Mr. Daly and the idea of titivation, 1895 / George Bernard Shaw 324

68 Remarks on the play and modern education, 1895 / Andrew Lang 328

69 Theseus, Bottom, and the Interlude, 1896 / Frederick Samuel Boas 332

70 The central idea, 1897 / Edmund Ker Chever Chambers 335

71 The airy dream, 1898 / Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 339

72 Illusion, realism, and imagination, 1900 / Max Beerbohm 343

73 Dream visions, 1903 / Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke 346

74 A comedy of situation and enchantment, 1903 / Richard Green Moulton 353

75 Shakespeare's working classes, 1903 / Ernest Howard Crosby 357

76 The atmosphere of the play, 1904 / Gilbert Keith Chesterton 360

77 Love, dreamland, and Helena, 1905 / Stopford Augustus Brooke 365

78 The theme of illusion, 1907 / George Edward Woodberry 368

79 The nature and sources of the play, 1908 / Frank Sidgwick 370

80 The most beautiful work of man, 1909 / Algernon Charles Swinburne 373

81 Shakespeare's conception of his art, 1911 / Ernest De Selincourt 374

82 Screeds of word-music, 1914 / Harley Granville Barker 378

83 Three types of fairies: Puck, Oberon and Titania, 1916 / Charlotte Carmichael Stopes 381

84 The dream's validity, 1917 / Bjornstjerne Bjornson 383

85 Comedy of love, 1920 / Benedetto Croce 386.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-435) and index.

ISBN:

0485810034

OCLC:

40907683