William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Third Series
Herausgegeben:Chaudhuri, Sukanta

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text and a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play. The editor brings fresh perspectives on global productions and adaptations of this most-loved of Shakespeare's comedies.

Produktdetails

• The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 17116
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781408133491
• ISBN-10: 1408133490
• Artikelnr.: 44557448

Autorenporträt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

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Inhaltsangabe

List of IllustrationsGeneral editors' PrefacePrefaceINTRODUCTIONSTAGE, SCREEN, ARTThe play in its time: staging and castingBritish productions: Restoration to nineteenth centuryBritish productions: the twentieth century and afterEuropeBeyond EuropeOther media: cinema, music, artSOURCES AND ANALOGUES: FAIRIES AND MORTALSFairies and fairy loreOvid: the classics and the fairiesPyramus and ThisbeTheseus and Hippolyta: Plutarch, Chaucer and ShakespeareTHEMES AND DESIGNSPastoral: the forestDreamers and LoversPatriarchyCarnival, class, courtTheatre, art and illusionThe comedy of compromiseLANGUAGE AND VERSEA MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMAppendix 1: Casting ChartAppendix 2:Date and OccasionAppendix 3: The TextAbbreviations and ReferencesIndex