A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins.In the introduction to this edition, Peter Holland pays...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins.In the introduction to this edition, 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. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Dreams -- Dreams and Dreaming -- Renaissance Dreams -- Dramatic Dreams -- Fairies -- Robin -- Theseus and Hippolyta -- The Lovers -- Bottom -- 'Pyramus and Thisbe' -- Shapes -- Date -- The Text -- EDITORIAL PROCEDURES -- Abbreviations and References -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- APPENDIX: SHAKESPEARE'S REVISIONS OF ACT 5 -- INDEX -- The Oxford World's Classics Website.
