A Midsummer Night's Dream

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’, jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania. Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have emphasised the enchanting, spectacular, ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage.Author: Shakespeare, William,author,Carabine, Dr Keith,series_editor,Watts M.A. Ph.D., Professor Cedric,intr
Contributors: Shakespeare, William,author,Carabine, Dr Keith,series_editor,Watts M.A. Ph.D., Professor Cedric,introduction,Watts M.A. Ph.D., Professor Cedric,editor
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 72
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Edition: First Edition
Published/Release Date: 5 May 1992
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Author/Director/Artist: William Shakespeare
Dimension (cm): 193x124x10 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 11x196x126 mm
Item Weight (g): 1050
Package Weight (g): 91