William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream (Literature Made Easy Series) - Softcover

Kerrigan, Michael; Buzan, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764108271 ISBN 13: 9780764108273

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Volumes in this recently developed series for middle school and high school students analyze major literary works in terms that help students understand them for higher grades on tests and written reports. More than mere plot summaries, Literature Made Easy books describe classic novels and plays by explaining themes, analyzing characters, and discussing each author's unique style, mastery of language, and point of view. Imaginative and instructive use of graphics help make each book in this series livlier, easier, and more profitable to use than ordinary plot summaries. Books also feature "Mind Maps" - diagrams that summarize a literary work's most important details, as a way of helping students focus their ideas for exams and term papers.

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About the Author

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'. ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764108271
• ISBN 13: 9780764108273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 83