Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; R.Dutton 'But We Are Spirits of Another Sort': The Dark Side of Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream; D.Bevington A Midsummer Night's Dream; E.Krieger 'Hermia's Dream'; N.N.Holland A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Jack shall have Jill Nought shall go ill'; S.Nelson Garner 'Shaping Fantasies': Figuration of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture; L.A.Montrose 'Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen'; P.McGuire Gaining a Father: The Role of Egeus in the Quarto and the Folio; B.Hodgson Bottom's Up: Festive Theory; A.Patterson The Kindly Ones: The Death of The Author in Shakespearean Athens; R.Wilson Or; T.Hawkes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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