Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language. An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play. purchased this book about three years ago while being abroad, and never got around to reading it. book is like new, but there a bit of some visible creasing on the edges of the cover. ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ description of the book from the Folger Shakespeare Library - Shop : In A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” This edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books An annotated guide to further reading
