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The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's play...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 15 June 2008
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Shakespeare Plays | Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
- ISBN 13: 9780199535866 ISBN 10: 0199535868
- Sales rank: 18,458
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Full description for The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree. In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
