A Midsummer Night's Dream [Shakespeare William],794KS (173803)

The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’, jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced aby the voluptuously amorous Titania.

Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have emphasised the enchanting, spectacular, ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage.

ISBN: 9781853260308
Kod paskowy: 9781853260308
Autorzy: Shakespeare William
Rok wydania: 2013
Kod wydawcy: 32279
Miejscowość: London (Londyn)
ilość stron: 120
Oprawa: Miękka
PKWiU: 58.11.1
Format: 12.0x19.0cm
Głębokość (mm): 7
Waga: 0.09
Języki: angielski
Grupa towarowa: Książka