A midsummer night's dream /
"The 1600 First Quarto edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the only text of the play to have been printed in Shakespeare's lifetime and has served as the source for virtually all subsequent editions. It has many features suggesting that it was printed from Shakespeare's '...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Series: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1982.
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| Summary: | "The 1600 First Quarto edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the only text of the play to have been printed in Shakespeare's lifetime and has served as the source for virtually all subsequent editions. It has many features suggesting that it was printed from Shakespeare's 'foul papers' - his manuscript draft - and that this draft had undergone revision before reaching the publishing house." "The First Quarto text is a full and coherent version of the play, close to that with which modern readers and theatre-goers are familiar. Its differences from other early texts, particularly that on the 1623 First Folio, are relatively slight, but they raise important questions about the stability of dramatic texts as they are transmitted through time, and about the authority of their authors - even an author as 'iconic' as William Shakespeare."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. "For the Oxford Shakespeare edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows." --From publisher's description. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 275 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0198129289 0192814567 (pbk) |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |