A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research Chapter 1 The Critical Backstory and The State of the Art -- Chapter 2 Dream: The Performance History -- Chapter 3 New Directions: 'Soundings in A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- Chapter 4 New Directions: 'The Weaver's Dream -- Mnemonic Scripts and Memorial Texts' -- Chapter 5 New Directions: 'Spirits of Another Sort: Constructing Shakespeare's Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- Chapter 6 New Directions: 'Shakespeare and the Fairy King: Re-viewing the Cultural and Political Contexts of A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- Chapter 7 New Directions: 'Constructing Experiences and Charting Narratives: The Future in/of A Midsummer Night's Dream' -- Chapter 8 A Survey of Resources
