The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree. In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.

ISBN 0199535868   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199535866 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 304 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192834201 Publication date 17 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 195 Library of Congress PR2819   Width (mm) 126 DEWEY 822.33   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 288   Alternative ISBN 9780694515851

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