William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback) Wordsworth Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Midsummer Night's DreamCondition: NewEAN: 9781853260308ISBN: 9781853260308Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/05/1992Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 7mmItem Weight: 86gAuthor: William ShakespeareLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1853260304Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Cedric Watts (Edited by), Cedric Watts (Introduction and notes by), Keith Carabine (Series edited by)Genre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: Wordsworth ClassicsRelease Year: 1992 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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