Our moonlight revels : A midsummer night's dream in the theatre /
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| Author / Creator: | Williams, Gary Jay. |
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| Imprint: | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997. |
| Description: | xiii, 344 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in theatre history and culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2904907 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Our Moonlight Revels
- 1. The Wedding-play Myth and the Dream in Full Play
- 2. Shakespeare Absolute: Fairies, Gods, and Oranges in Purcell's Fairy Queen
- 3. "Signor Shakespearelli"
- 4. The Scenic Language of Empire
- 5. "These Antique Fables ... These Fairy Toys"
- 6. The National and Natural Dream
- 7. The Dream of Modernism: The "New Hieroglyphic Language of Scenery" and the Theology of the Text
- 8. The Dream of Modernism: The Sacred and the Secular
- 9. Postmodernism: "The Fierce Vexation of a Dream"