A Midsummer Night's Dream (New Surveys in the Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198319266 ISBN 13: 9780198319269

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1980

Synopsis

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Holland is Wilson University Lecturer in Drama at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University. He is also a drama reviewer for BBC radio and the TLS, a Syndic of Cambridge University Press, and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company; he has published widely on theatre generally and Shakespeare in particular

Review:

`The commentary is admirably lucid and undogmatic on textual variants ... The introduction is of the kind that ponders and explores. Holland's method is to take each aspect or element of the play and consider it in the light of earlier traditions ... his critical position emerges unobtrusively but persuasively from the attested facts.' M.M. Mahoud, YES, 27, 1996

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0198319266
• ISBN 13: 9780198319269
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Horwood F.C.