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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- A Note on Sources -- Chronology -- 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Synopsis of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Historical Background of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Why We Read A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Historical Explorations of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Documenting A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Source Texts -- Document: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IV, ca. AD 8 -- Document: Plutarch, Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, AD 75 -- Document: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "The Knight's Tale," 1476 -- Document: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ca. 1591 and 1595 -- Magic and the Supernatural -- Document: Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584 -- Document: Anonymous, "The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow," ca. 1628 -- Document: Anonymous, Robin Good-Fellow -- His Mad Prankes, and Merry Jests, 1628 -- Queen Elizabeth -- Document: Queen Elizabeth, "On Monsieur's Departure," ca. 1582 -- Document: Queen Elizabeth, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury," 1588 -- Document: Edmund Spenser, "Letter to Raleigh" in The Faerie Queene, 1590-1596 -- Suggested Readings -- 2 The Merchant of Venice -- Synopsis of The Merchant of Venice -- Historical Background of The Merchant of Venice -- Why We Read The Merchant of Venice -- Historical Explorations of The Merchant of Venice -- Documenting The Merchant of Venice -- Source Texts -- Document: Anonymous, Gesta Romanorum, 13th Century -- Document: Giovanni Fiorentino, Il Pecorone, 14th Century -- Document: Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, 1589-1590 -- Renaissance Jews and Anti-Semitism -- Document: "Edict of Expulsion," Statute of the Jewry, 1275 -- Document: Anonymous, "A New Song, Shewing the Crueltie of Gernutus a Jew," ca. 1620.
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