"Previously published in hardback as vol. 1900 in the Garland reference library of the humanities"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references. A midsummer night's dream : a bibliographic survey of the criticism / Dorothea Kehler -- A midsummer night's dream / Mark Van Doren -- Imagination in A midsummer night's dream / R.W. Dent -- Titania and the ass's head / Jan Kott -- A midsummer night's dream : "Jack shall have Jill;/nought shall go ill" / Shirley Nelson Garner -- "I believe we must leave the killing out" : deference and accommodation in A midsummer night's dream / Theodore B. Leinwand -- Bottom's up : festive theory in A midsummer night's dream / Annabel Patterson -- Dis/figuring power : censorship and representation in A midsummer night's dream / Barbara Freedman -- A kingdom of shadows / Louis A. Montrose -- Textual theory, literary interpretation, and the last act of A midsummer night's dream / Janis Lull -- A midsummer night's dream as a comic version of the Theseus myth / Douglas Freake -- Antique fables, fairy toys : elisions, allusion, and translation in A midsummer night's dream / Thomas Moisan -- Disfiguring women with masculine tropes : a rhetorical reading of A midsummer night's dream / Christy Desmet -- Our nightly madness : Shakespeare's Dream without The interpretation of dreams / Thelma N. Greenfield -- Chronotope and repression in A midsummer night's dream / Susan Baker -- Preposterous pleasures : queer theories and A midsummer night's dream / Douglas E. Green -- A review of Ariane Mnouchkine's Le Songe d'une nuit d'été / Ann Fridén -- Shakespeare at the Guthrie : A midsummer night's dream / Thomas Clayton -- [Kenneth Branagh's] A midsummer night's dream / Robert A. Logan -- Brecht and beyond : Shakespeare on the East German stage / Lawrence Guntner -- A midsummer night's dream : nightmare or gentle snooze? / Mary Z. Maher -- Transposing Helena to form and dignity / Lisa J. Moore -- Marion McClinton's A midsummer night's dream at the La Jolla Playhouse, 1995 : appropriation through performance / Dorothea Kehler.