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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare, William
Mowat, Barbara a.
Werstine, Paul

Paperback

Series: Folger Shakespeare Library

PlaysShakespeare

Publisher Price: $6.99

ISBN10: 0743477545
ISBN13: 9780743477543
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.10 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
The bestselling, authoritative Folger Shakespeare Library edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Shakespeare's complete original text, expert annotations, scene-by-scene summaries, and trusted scholarship for students, teachers, and general readers.

For more than seventy years, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions have been the standard classroom and reading editions of Shakespeare's plays. Used in high schools, colleges, universities, and theaters around the world, each volume combines the complete original text with expert editorial guidance that makes Shakespeare's language more accessible while preserving every nuance of the play.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples--but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.

Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or puck, Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe.

Whether you're reading A Midsummer Night's Dream for school, teaching it in the classroom, preparing for AP English Literature, studying Shakespeare in college, performing the play, or simply returning to one of the greatest works of English literature, this edition provides the context and guidance to help you read Shakespeare with confidence.

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