A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare, Peter Holland

Overview

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children—filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198129288
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/23/1995
Series:	The ^AOxford Shakespeare
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare - Edited by Wolfgang Clemen William Hazlitt: From The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Henry Alonzo Myers: 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Tragedy and Comedy
John Russell Brown From Shakespeare and His Comedies
Frank Kermode: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Linda Bamber: The Status of the Feminine in Shakespearean Comedy
Sylvan Barnet: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' on the Stage and Screen

NEWLY ADDED ESSAY:
Camille Wells Slights: From Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths

Editorial Reviews

"Carefully and imaginatively edited."—Choice

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