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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essay by Stanley Wells

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SOURCE: "A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited," The Critical Survey, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1991, pp. 14-29.

In the following excerpt, Wells reviews trends in critical reception of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1970s and 1980s, reaffirming his doubts that the play was originally written for a wedding and examining the relationship between recent literary criticism of the play and its performance history.

This is a free excerpt of 62 words. There are 7,712 words (approx. 26 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.

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