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"This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text and a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play. The editor brings fresh perspectives on global productions a...

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Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: Chaudhuri, Sukanta, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Series:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Midsummer night's dream.
Courtship > Greece > Athens > Drama.
Magic > Drama.
Fairy plays.
Athens (Greece) > Drama.
Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • STAGE, SCREEN, ART
  • The play in its time: staging and casting
  • British productions: Restoration to nineteenth century
  • British productions: the twentieth century and after
  • Europe
  • Beyond Europe
  • Other media: cinema, music, art SOURCES AND ANALOGUES: FAIRIES AND MORTALS
  • Fairies and fairy lore
  • Ovid: the classics and the fairies
  • Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Theseus and Hippolyta: Plutarch, Chaucer and Shakespeare THEMES AND DESIGNS
  • Pastoral: the forest
  • Dreamers and Lovers
  • Patriarchy
  • Carnival, class, court
  • Theatre, art and illusion
  • The comedy of compromise LANGUAGE AND VERSE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
  • Appendix 1: Casting Chart
  • Appendix 2: Date and Occasion
  • Appendix 3: The Text
  • Abbreviations and References
  • Index.

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