A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare Peter Holland (Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Oxford Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Peter Holland (Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)

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Romanian

Worlds Classics
01 May 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Shakespeare plays; Shakespeare studies & criticism

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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.

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By: William Shakespeare
Edited by: Peter Holland (Director of the Shakespeare Institute Director of the Shakespeare Institute Stratford-upon-Avon)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 302g
ISBN: 9780199535866
ISBN 10: 0199535868
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 May 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Language: Romanian
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare

`The commentary is admirably lucid and undogmatic on textual variants ... The introduction is of the kind that ponders and explores. Holland's method is to take each aspect or element of the play and consider it in the light of earlier traditions ... his critical position emerges unobtrusively but persuasively from the attested facts.' M.M. Mahoud, YES, 27, 1996