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The Composers . . 967
The Sources (Operas Musicals, Movies and Other Sources of Songs) . . 1313

Introduction . . ix
Acknowledgements . . xi
How to Use This Book . . xiii
The Bibliography . . 1
The Song Index . . 37

List of Illustrations viii
General Introduction xi
Introduction xv
Acknowledgments xlviii
Bibliography 1

PART ONE:

ELIZABETHAN VERSIFYING ALCHEMISTS 1
Edward Cradock
I. A Treatise Touching the Philosopher's
Stone (ca. 1575) 3
Simon Forman
II. Of the Division of the Chaos (ca. 1595)
III. Compositor ad Lectornm (1597) 49

PART TWO: THREE VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM
MIDDLE FRENCH BY WILLIAM BACKHOUSE (1644) 71
Jean de La Fontaine
IV. The Pleasant Fobuteine of Knovledge (1413) 79
Pseudo-Jean de Meun

V. The Complaint of Nature against the Erronions Alchymist (ca. 1500)

VI. The Alchimyst's Ansvere to Natbre (ca. 1500) 123

PART THREE: INTERREGNUM "EPIC":
CHYMICAL MEDICINE AND SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY 201
Bassett Jones
VII. Lithochymicus (ca. 1650) 203
The Whole Woorke's Emblem 229
To the Industrious & Worthy Authour 230
The Preface 231
The First Chapter 238
The Second Chapter 253
The Third Chapter 269
The Fowerth Chapter 274
The Fift Chapter 288
The Sixt Chapter 314
The Author's Corollarie 324
An Index 327
[Appendix] 349

PART FOUR:
SIX ANONYMOUS VERSE TRANSLATIONS (ca. 1700) 413
Mary the Prophetess
VIII. Epigram from her Practica 420
Dionysius Zacharias
IX. The Practice of the Divine Work: (1567) 429

Bernardus Trevisanus
X. The Practise of the Philosophick Stone (15th century?) 446
Aristeus Pater
XI. The Words of Father Aristeus to his Son (ca. 1600) 464
Michael Sendivogius
XII. The Philosophicall Enigma (ca. 1610) 480
XIII. A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Siblphur (ca. 1610) 514

PART FIVE: HERMETIC MYSTICISM AND
AUGUSTAN SATIRE 541
"Torrescissa"
XIV. Hermetick Raptures (ca. 1700) 543

INDEX 641

General Editor's Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xiii

I. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Critics
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Bibliographic Survey of the Criticism
Dorothea Kehler 3

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mark Van Doren 77

Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream
R. W. Dent 85

Titania and the Ass's Head
Jan Kott 107

A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Jack Shall Have Jill; / Nought
Shall Go III"
ShirleyNelson Garner 127

"I Believe We Must Leave the Killing Out": Deference and
Accommodation in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theodore B. Leinwand 145

Bottom's Up: Festive Theory in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Annabel Patterson 165

Dis/Figuring Power: Censorship and Representation in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Barbara Freedman 179

A Kingdom of Shadows
LouisA. Montrose 217

Textual Theory, Literary Interpretation, and the Last Act of A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Janis Lull 241

A Midsummer Night's Dream as a Comic Version of the
Theseus Myth
Douglas Freake 259

Antique Fables, Fairy Toys: Elisions, Allusion, and
Translation in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thomas Moisan 275

Disfiguring Women with Masculine Tropes:
A Rhetorical Reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Christy Desmet 299

Our Nightly Madness: Shakespeare's Dream Without The
Interpretation of Dreams
Thelma N. Greenf eld 331

Brecht and Beyond: Shakespeare on the East Gerrnan Stage
[1971-1980]
Lawrence Guntner 421

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nightrnare or Gentle Snooze?
[1970-1994]
Mary Z. Maher 429

Transposing Helena to Form and Dignity [1994]
Lisa J. Moore 453

Marion McClinton's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the La
Jolla Playhouse, 1995: Appropriation Through
Performance
Dorothea Kehler 473