A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare for the Young Reader
"One of the early comedies of Shakespeare, *A Midsummer Night's Dream* can be suitably called as a 'wedding play', as it presents an atmosphere of wedding celebration.
They are followed by Demetrius, who loves Hermia, and Helena, who is in love with Demetrius. What they don’t know is that the wood is enchanted… Dossiers: Shakespeare's Sources The Elizabethan Performance
59 Why is there so much extraneous to the plot in “ the latter end ” of A Midsummer Night's Dream ? ... marital resolution , but only at the cost of reminding us that the world is bigger than the play , that plays shape but a small part ...
Something 'bigger than us' carries us along; we are under a magic ... And Carter says, “The use of Cupid and Psyche in A Midsummer Night's Dream is intimated in Puck's Cupid-like role, and the broader Neo-platonic contexts of the myth” ...
Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). ... Other titles in the Evans Shakespeare Editions from Cengage Learning As You Like It Heather Dubrow,V01un1e Editor Hamlet M.T0bin ...
The entire Shakespeare play, unabridged, as a full color graphic novel.
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce the fairies featured in Shakespeare's play, from Puck to Mustardseed.
Presents the annotated text of Shakespeare's dramatic comedy in which two sets of lovers get lost in the woods and become caught up in a dispute between the fairy king and queen, along with a group of local actors preparing a play for Duke ...
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Presents essays written from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries that offer an analysis and critique of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and includes a summary of the play and excerpts of key passages.
That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow When thou hold'st up thy hand. ... the break in rhymed couplets, posit a missing line here; others regard the broken rhyme scheme as deliberate.
Theatre program.
"In the pure poetry and intoxication of words, Shakespeare never rose higher than he rises in this play." --G. K. Chesterton
"Midsummer like you have never readit before; quick, fun, and easy to understand - just like Playing with Plays other play: Romeo and Juliet."
Four happy days bring in Another moon - but , O , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! She lingers my desires , Like to a step - dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young man's revenue . Our wedding day is getting near ...
This performing edition was prepared for Propeller’s all-male company of twelve actors, at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and toured the West End in 2003.
Shakespeare's enduring characters are set adrift in present-day Athens, but a present with a massive difference - an alternative history.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Reader
Harold F. Brooks takes this popular Shakespearean comedy/fantasy to task, examining all the aspects of the play with regard to characterization, story, plot twists, and other aspects designed to engage inquiring students' minds.