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This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated introduction, an updated reading list, and new illustrations.
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This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated introduction, an updated reading list, and new illustrations.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 300
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 590g
- ISBN-13: 9781107130449
- ISBN-10: 1107130441
- Artikelnr.: 44264771
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 300
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 590g
- ISBN-13: 9781107130449
- ISBN-10: 1107130441
- Artikelnr.: 44264771
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. It is unknown exactly when A Midsummer Night's Dream was written or first performed, but on the basis of topical references and an allusion to Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, it is usually dated 1595 or early 1596. Some have theorised that the play might have been written for an aristocratic wedding (for example that of Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley), while others suggest that it was written for the Queen to celebrate the feast day of St. John, but no evidence exists to support this theory. In any case, it would have been performed at The Theatre and, later, The Globe. Though it is not a translation or adaptation of an earlier work, various sources such as Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" served as inspiration. According to John Twyning, the play's plot of four lovers undergoing a trial in the woods was intended as a "riff" on Der Busant, a Middle High German poem. According to Dorothea Kehler, the writing period can be placed between 1594 and 1596, which means that Shakespeare had probably already completed Romeo and Juliet and had yet to start working on The Merchant of Venice. The play belongs to the early-middle period of the author, when Shakespeare devoted his attention to the lyricism of his works.
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?
The play in its time
Symmetrical structures
Interpreting the language
Cressida
Literary identity
Scepticism and speculation
The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton
Staging the staging
Note on the text
The 1609 epistle to the reader
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix: sources of the play
Reading list.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?
The play in its time
Symmetrical structures
Interpreting the language
Cressida
Literary identity
Scepticism and speculation
The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton
Staging the staging
Note on the text
The 1609 epistle to the reader
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix: sources of the play
Reading list.
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?
The play in its time
Symmetrical structures
Interpreting the language
Cressida
Literary identity
Scepticism and speculation
The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton
Staging the staging
Note on the text
The 1609 epistle to the reader
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix: sources of the play
Reading list.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?
The play in its time
Symmetrical structures
Interpreting the language
Cressida
Literary identity
Scepticism and speculation
The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton
Staging the staging
Note on the text
The 1609 epistle to the reader
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix: sources of the play
Reading list.