| A Midsummer Night's Dream Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), Raffel, Burton (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 030010653X ISBN-13: 9780300106534 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare's marvelous "A Midsummer Night's Dream "is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2004024958 |
| Lexile Measure: 600 |
| Series: Annotated Shakespeare |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.06" W x 7.8" (0.37 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Each volume of The Annotated Shakespeare proves to be a splendid addition to the series."--Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare's lyrical A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. This extensively annotated edition makes Midsummer completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and provides a rich resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffel's on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. In his introduction he explores the complexities of A Midsummer Night's Dream. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the play's extraordinary m lange of characters. |