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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2003, Paperback) 
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2003, Paperback)

 
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (2003, Paperback)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Washington Square Pr
Publication Date: 2003-12-23
Series: New Folger Library Shakespeare Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0743477545
ISBN-13: 9780743477543
Product ID: EPID2398625
Description: An edition of Shakespeare's comedy, including discussion of its production, themes, patterns, language, and author.
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Synopsis
An edition of Shakespeare's comedy, including discussion of its production, themes, patterns, language, and author.

An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

The play takes place at the summer solstice, Midsummer Eve, in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person--except Theseus, the Duke, and his fiancée, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to force her into a nunnery if she refuses to marry his choice, Demetrius. But Demetrius loves Helena, and Lysander and Hermia plan to elope despite the Duke's orders. Meanwhile, in a subplot, the "rude mechanicals" (or artisans) Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling, and Bottom, are hilariously rehearsing the play PYRAMUS AND THISBE to be performed at the Duke's wedding. As Hermia and Lysander head into the Forest of Arden to elope, with Helena and Demetrius following, the amateur acting troupe likewise takes cover in the forest to rehearse in privacy. This leads all the players into the realm of magic, presided over by the King and Queen of the Fairies, Oberon and Titania. When Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania with the aid of the juice of a magic flower that causes people to fall in love with the first person (or beast) they set eyes on, the real trouble starts. The magic is used liberally on both the humans and the fairies by the trouble-making sprite Puck, inspiring many incongruous entanglements. Unlike the other plays, there is in this case no known source for Shakespeare's fantastic plot, though the structure is classical, beginning in the court, moving to an "uncivilized" environment, and then returning to the newly ordered world of the court. Aspects of the imagery are drawn from classic works, such as Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. From evidence in the play, like Titania's remark about three unusually unpleasant summers in a row--documented elsewhere in England's records--composition seems to date from 1595 or 1596, and scholarship suggests that it was first performed in honor of a court wedding, though precisely whose remains unsubstantiated.

Details
Publication Date:2003-12-23
Series:New Folger Library Shakespeare Series

Size
Length:256 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:4.8 oz

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