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Zusatztext A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular comedy! and also a profound! archetypal play. The Introduction describes the two main traditions in the stage history! one emphasising charm and innocence! the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality! and relates them to similar traditions in critical interpretation! showing that both are necessary to a full understanding of the play. For this updated edition the editor has added a new section to the Introduction which takes account of the number of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented. Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2] He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Klappentext A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular comedy, and also a profound, archetypal play. Zusammenfassung For this second edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream R. A. Foakes has added a new account of important contemporary theatre productions and recent scholarly criticism on the play. The reading list has also been revised and updated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: A further note on sources; Reading list.
List of contents
Introduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: A further note on sources; Reading list.
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'... a fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
