William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595 or 1596) is a romantic comedy about love, dreams, and the creative imagination. Mostly set in the realm of Fairyland, the play's main plot concerns two couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius, who flee into the woods. Hermia has refused to marry the man chosen by her father. In the woods, the King of the fairies recruits the mischievous Puck to change the couples' feelings for each other through magic.
The Present Study Aims At Making The Text More Accessible To The Serious Student Of Shakespeare. Besides Providing The Socio-Political Milieu Of Shakespeare S Time, It Gives A Scene-Wise Critical Summary Of The Text.
K. Chesterton This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Shakespeare’s most popular comedy—with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic—based on Grace Ioppolo’s conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
In this study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, James Calderwood calls on psychoanalysis, feminism, anthropology and metadrama, to demonstrate the profound complexity of the play. He shows how Shakespeare explores...
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The second title in David Zwirner Books’s Seeing Shakespeare series revisits the ultimate fairy tale through the eyes of a contemporary artist who feels a special affinity for its imagery.
Presents a collection of interpretations of William Shakespeare's comedy, A midsummer night's dream.
Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book will show how the play participates in a widespread 1590s concern with...
The course of true love never did run smooth.