A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Narrated by Multiple Narrators

Unabridged — 2 hours, 2 minutes

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Narrated by Multiple Narrators

Unabridged — 2 hours, 2 minutes

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Overview

Perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. The approaching wedding festivities of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, are delightfully crisscrossed with in-again, off-again romances of two young pairs of Athenian lovers; a fateful rivalry between the King and Queen of the Fairies; and the theatrical aspirations of a bumbling troupe of Athenian laborers. It all ends happily in wedding-night revelry complete with a play-within-a-play presented by the laborers to the ecstatic amusement of all.

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"A fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions." The Times Higher Education Supplement

Product Details

BN ID: 2940169684681
Publisher: Author's Republic
Publication date: 09/07/2016
Edition description: Unabridged

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