The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
By - Lagemaat, Richard van de
Floor
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Floor 1
Published
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
ISBN 10 - 0199535868
ISBN 13 - 9780199535866
Book Status
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2 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Knowledge, Theory of
Shelf No
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10
Call Number
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121 LAG
Physical Description
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viii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes
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Includes Index
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. In the introduction to this edition, 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.