A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192834207 ISBN 13: 9780192834201

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For this edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.

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: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192834207
• ISBN 13: 9780192834201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Holland Peter