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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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184 pages, Paperback
19.5cm x 13cm
Goodreads Rating: 3.95 * 536,792 ratings * 12,296 reviews

Genres: Classics/Plays/Romance/Theatre

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy.

This book includes:

* An introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
* The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
* A scene-by-scene analysis
* An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
* A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.
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