Research Catalog

Title

Literary criticism as dream analysis : essays on renaissance and modern writers / Jeanne Addison Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Jeanne Addison

Publication

Baltimore : American Literary Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

390 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Dream interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I Approach -- In Praise of Criticism 1 -- Literary Criticism as Dream Analysis 6 -- Bubbles From the Canon's Mouth 9 -- The Universal Shakespeare? 11 -- II Visions and Revisions -- Making a Woman and Other Institutionalized Diversions 21 -- Have Women in the Southeast Had a Renaissance? 25 -- Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood 31 -- Margaret Cavendish Plays with Shakespeare 39 -- Women Edit Shakespeare 46 -- III Generic Forms -- Anxiety and Influence: Milton, Ovid, and Shakespeare 59 -- Strategies of Delay in Shakespeare: What the Much Ado is Really About 70 -- The Merry Wives of Windsor as a Hallowe'en Play 77 -- The Merry Wives: Suitably Shallow, but Neither Simple nor Slender 83 -- Revenge Tragedy and Elizabeth Cary's Mariam 97 -- IV Men -- John Ford's Passionate Abstractions 109 -- Laughter and the Law: Shakespeare's Comic Constables 119 -- Shakespeare's Helens and the Reluctant Bertram 126 -- Review Essay: The Windsor Falstaff 132 -- Crises of Male Self-Definition in The Two Noble Kinsmen 154 -- V Animals and the Green World -- The Dreadful Sagittary and Other Shakespearean Nightmares 167 -- Comrade to the Wolf and Owl 177 -- "Why should a dog, a horse, a Rat have Life ...?" 194 -- Horses and Hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the Shrew 198 -- Animals as Agents of Revelation: the Horizontalizing of the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's Comedies 209 -- Shakespeare's Forests and Trees 224 -- Shakespeare's Green World Revisited 240 -- VI Women -- Facets of the Female in Shakespeare's Plays 253 -- Birth Traumas in Shakespeare 265 -- Shades of The Triple Hecate in Shakespeare 273 -- The Crone in English Renaissance Drama 285 -- Shakespeare's Comic Heronies and the Superwomen of Midcentury 305 -- Sex and the Female Tragic Hero 323 -- Feminist Interpretations of Shakespeare 341 -- Are Shakespeare's Women Unruly? 346.

ISBN

• 1934696307
• 9781934696309

LCCN

40016590340

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library