{"product_id":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-and-the-tempest-in-the-mirror-of-changing-critical-approaches-von-cornelia-kaltenbacher","title":"'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Tempest' in the mirror of changing critical approaches","description":"\u003cp\u003eThesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: gut, University of Dusseldorf \"Heinrich Heine\", language: English, abstract: Shakespeare is one of the most analysed and ¿criticised¿ poet in the history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof literature. Why Shakespeare? The answer is easy. He is not only most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalysed but also the most popular dramatist that has ever existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare¿s drama has been fascinating his audience and readers through the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies. The plots of Shakespeare¿s drama seem to be simple, dealing with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehuman and social themes like love, marriage, murder, intrigue, complot and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erevenge. On a first sight, they remember us of a good and entertaining\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollywood Film. But is this all what Shakespeare has to say through his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrama? Did he really intend to write commercial plays, without giving a deeper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esense to his literary work? I don¿t think so. I think Shakespeare achieved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough his ¿simple¿ plots to get deeply into the minds and souls of his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaudience, in order to make them conceive the complexity of their own lives and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeelings. I do not intend to find out his personal message in the drama or to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterpret his intentions. I will rather concentrate on his work and try to find out,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat kind of message Shakespeare¿s comedy transmitted to his audience and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabove all to his experienced readers, better said, to his literary critics. My paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshall reveal the complexity and the deep psychological meaning of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare¿s comedy. Returning to my first question why Shakespeare? I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewould like to answer it, by quoting one of my favourite critics, Northrop Frye:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿For all that has been written about it, Shakespearean comedy still seams to me widely misunderstood and underestimated, and my main thesis, that the four romances are the inevitable and genuine culmination of the poet¿s achievement, is clearly less obvious to many than it is to me.¿ 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI consider Frye¿s assumption on Shakespearean comedy the adequate answer to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy question. In this paper I intend to seek the deep sense of A Midsummer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNight¿s Dream and The Tempest, by posting them in a mirror of changing critical approaches, beginning with the mythological view, continuing with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epolitical and new critical perspective and ending with my personal notes. My\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emain purpose in this paper is to demonstrate that Shakespeare¿s comedy does\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot only have a delighting function but also exercises a deep psychological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpact on the old and new generations. In my opinion he was not only a genius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the drama, but also an initiator of the renaissance of mythical and archaic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evalues in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783638943857\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783638943857","offer_id":58965893906757,"sku":"9783638943857","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_b0b63cb5-0a06-48a4-9a50-548e515606ee.jpg?v=1787460897","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/a-midsummer-nights-dream-and-the-tempest-in-the-mirror-of-changing-critical-approaches-von-cornelia-kaltenbacher","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}