A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and widely performed across the world, is now available as a Norton Critical Edition. Included are a preface, critical essay and explanatory annotations by Grace Iopollo, along with essays by acclaimed Shakespeare scholars, and reviews and interpretative essays spanning over four centuries.

About the author

Grace Ioppolo is the founder and director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project and is Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, England. She is the author of Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood: Authorship, Authority, and the Playhouse (2006) and Revising Shakespeare (1991). She has edited Shakespeare’s King Lear for Norton and has published widely on textual transmission, the history of the book and literary and historical manuscripts, most recently as the co-editor of Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007). She is the General Editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood, forthcoming 2012–15.

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies is based on the First Quarto text with variants from the First Folio.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Ioppolo, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Grace Ioppolo (Editor), Grace (University of Reading) Ioppolo (Editor), Ioppolo Grace (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780393923575
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92357-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 213 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Edition; Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Edition
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; DRAMA / Shakespeare, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights