Among other things, Krieger discusses the conflict between words of love and physical love . Long, John H. 1955. A Midsummer Night's Dream . A Study of the Music and Its Performance in the Original Production of Seven Comedies . University of Florida Press, 1955.
Music is seen to be a major means of constructing structural harmony and unity in the play.
Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1994. Montrose, Louis Adrian. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Contemporary Critical Essays. This much-referenced essay was first published in the New Historicist journal Representations in 1983, and has been published several places since.