A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 7

, by Kennedy, Judith M.; Kennedy, Richard F.

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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.

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE

(10)

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

(58)

ELIZABETH GRIFFITH

1 moral conventions and human sympathy, 1775

(4)

SAMUEL FELTON

2 artists' interpretations of dramatic effects, 1787

(3)

EDMOND MALONE

3 commentary on A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1790

(4)

CHARLES TAYLOR

4 Bottom as coxcomb, 1792

(4)

GEORGE STEEVENS

5 response to Malone, 1793

(2)

WALTER WHITER

6 illustrations of some passages, 1794

(3)

CHARLES DIBDIN

7 his fertile and creative fancy, 1800

(2)

AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL

8 on metre, invention, and a unified whole, 1815

(3)

NATHAN DRAKE

9 unity of feeling and of imagery, and the fairies, 1817

(6)

WILLIAM HAZLITT

10 Bottom, Puck, and the incompatibility of poetry and the stage, 1817

(4)

JAMES BOSWELL

EDMOND MALONE

11 Malone's last words, 1821

(3)

AUGUSTINE SKOTTOWE

12 mainly on the fairies, 1824

(4)

GEORGE DANIEL

13 the fairy world, the clowns, the poetry, 1828

101

(4)

THOMAS KEIGHTLEY

14 new actors on the mimic scene-the fairies, 1828

105

(3)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

15 marginalia and other notes, 1836

108

(3)

WILLIAM MAGINN

16 Bottom the lucky man, 1837

111

(7)

THOMAS CAMPBELL

17 critics refuted, 1838

118

(3)

HENRY HALLAM

18 originality in structure, machinery, and language, 1839

121

(2)

CHARLES KNIGHT

19 the Pictorial Edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1839

123

(7)

WILLIAM SPALDING

20 the poet's dream, 1840

130

(2)

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL

21 anachronisms, Nick Bottom as Midas, and stage representation, 1841

132

(5)

NICHOLAS JOHN HALPIN

22 Oberon's Vision allegorized, 1843

137

(5)

BRYAN WALLER PROCTER

23 fairy drama and human nature, 1843

142

(3)

LEIGH HUNT

24 Poet of the Fairies, 1844

145

(3)

JOSEPH HUNTER

25 a comment, with some explanatory notes, 1845

148

(5)

HERMANN ULRICI

26 the theme of self-parody, 1846

153

(4)

GULIAN CROMMELIN VERPLANCK

27 introductory remarks, 1847

157

(5)

HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE

28 the sister arts, and the play's structural balance, 1848

162

(6)

HENRY NORMAN`HUDSON

29 a festival of dainties, 1851

168

(5)

JOHN RUSKIN

30 the Dream and Art, 1851, 1872, 1883, 1884

173

(4)

HENRY MORLEY

31 a most charming entertainment of the stage, 1853

177

(4)

DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD

32 Samuel Phelps's Bottom, 1853

181

(3)

RICHARD GRANT WHITE

33 dramatic and poetic art, 1854

184

(6)

EDWARD STRACHEY

34 dialogue with a sceptic, 1854

190

(7)

WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD

35 critical remarks on the play, 1856

197

(6)

ANONYMOUS

36 Celtic elements, 1859

203

(3)

GEORG GOTTFRIED GERVINUS

37 genre and inner purpose, 1863

206

(8)

CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE

38 intuitive power of characterization, 1863

214

(3)

THOMAS KENNY

39 the play's limitations, 1864

217

(2)

JOHN ABRAHAM HERAUD

40 the sacred mysteries in the play, 1865

219

(6)

ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK

41 the secret meaning of the Interlude, 1865

225

(4)

ABNER OTIS KELLOGG

42 the perfection of imbecilic clowns, 1866

229

(3)

MARY PRESTON

43 not critics, but lowly worshippers of the Beautiful, 1869

232

(3)

HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE

44 the theme is love, 1871

235

(3)

DANIEL WILSON

45 Bottom -- an ass, but no fool, 1873

238

(3)

KARL ELZE

46 A Midsummer Night's Dream as masque, 1874

241

(4)

DENTON JACQUES SNIDER

47 self-reflexive structure: the Real, the Ideal, and the Representation, 1874

245

(8)

GEORGE WILKES

48 Shakespeare differentiated from Bacon, 1875

253

(3)

EDWARD DOWDEN

49 Theseus as the central figure, 1875

256

(3)

ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD

50 a comedy of incident, 1875

259

(3)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

51 consummation of Shakespeare's lyrical genius, 1876

262

(2)

JOHN WEISS

52 Bottom, a self-made man, 1876

264

(3)

FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL

53 the full glow of fancy and fun, 1877

267

(3)

CHARLES EBENEZER MOYSE

54 the wood is the world, 1879

270

(4)

THOMAS SPENCER BAYNES

55 Titania and Ovid, 1880

274

(3)

WILLIAM FRANCIS C. WIGSTON

56 a Platonic reading, 1884

277

(4)

GRACE LATHAM

57 interpreting the spoken verse, 1885

281

(7)

ELIZABETH WORMELEY LATIMER

58 observations on the lovers and the mechanicals, 1886

288

(4)

FRANCIS ALBERT MARSHALL

59 poet rather than dramatist, 1888

292

(3)

GEORGE EDGAR MONTGOMERY

60 source of the play's popularity, 1888

295

(3)

JULIA WEDGWOOD

61 classical and modern, 1890

298

(5)

CHARLES DOWNING

62 reason and desire in Oberon and Titania, 1890

303

(4)

SIDNEY CLOPTON LANIER

63 the development of morality and art, 1891

307

(6)

BARRETT WENDELL

64 a true work of art, 1894

313

(4)

HORACE HOWARD FURNESS

65 the duration of the action, 1895

317

(4)

KATHARINE LEE BATES

66 life and art, 1895

321

(3)

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

67 Mr. Daly and the idea of titivation, 1895

324

(4)

ANDREW LANG

68 remarks on the play and modern education, 1895

328

(4)

FREDERICK SAMUEL BOAS

69 Theseus, Bottom, and the Interlude, 1896

332

(3)

EDMUND KERCHEVER CHAMBERS

70 the central idea, 1897

335

(4)

GEORG MORRIS COHEN BRANDES

71 the airy dream, 1898

339

(4)

MAX BEERBOHM

72 illusion, realism, and imagination, 1900

343

(3)

CHARLOTTE ENDYMION PORTER

HELEN ARCHIBALD CLARKE

73 dream visions, 1903

346

(7)

RICHARD GREEN MOULTON

74 a comedy of situation and enchantment, 1903

353

(4)

ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY

75 Shakespeare's working classes, 1903

357

(3)

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

76 the atmosphere of the play, 1904

360

(5)

STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE

77 love, dreamland, and Helena, 1905

365

(3)

GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

78 the theme of illusion, 1907

368

(2)

FRANK SIDGWICK

79 the nature and sources of the play, 1908

370

(3)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

80 the most beautiful work of man, 1909

373

(1)

ERNEST DE SELINCOURT

81 Shakespeare's conception of his art, 1911

374

(4)

HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER

82 screeds of word-music, 1914

378

(3)

CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES

83 three types of fairies: Puck, Oberon and Titania, 1916

381

(2)

BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON

84 the dream's validity, 1917

383

(3)

BENEDETTO CROCE

85 comedy of love, 1920

386

(3)

NOTES

389

(30)

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

419

(17)

INDEX

436

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