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Informationen zum Autor A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. It is unknown exactly when A Midsummer Night's Dream was written or first performed, but on the basis of topical references and an allusion to Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, it is usually dated 1595 or early 1596. Some have theorised that the play might have been written for an aristocratic wedding (for example that of Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley), while others suggest that it was written for the Queen to celebrate the feast day of St. John, but no evidence exists to support this theory. In any case, it would have been performed at The Theatre and, later, The Globe. Though it is not a translation or adaptation of an earlier work, various sources such as Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" served as inspiration. According to John Twyning, the play's plot of four lovers undergoing a trial in the woods was intended as a "riff" on Der Busant, a Middle High German poem. According to Dorothea Kehler, the writing period can be placed between 1594 and 1596, which means that Shakespeare had probably already completed Romeo and Juliet and had yet to start working on The Merchant of Venice. The play belongs to the early-middle period of the author, when Shakespeare devoted his attention to the lyricism of his works. Klappentext The first volume of Staunton's 1858 edition of Shakespeare's plays! with a life of Shakespeare! and illustrations by John Gilbert. Zusammenfassung This is the first of three volumes of Shakespeare's plays compiled and edited by Howard Staunton! originally published in 1858 and acclaimed for their combination of meticulous research and common sense. The text is embellished by numerous handsome black-and-white illustrations by John Gilbert and accompanied by critical notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 2. Love's Labour's Lost; 3. The Comedy of Errors; 4. Romeo and Juliet; 5. The Taming of the Shrew; 6. King John; 7. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 8. The Merchant of Venice; 9. King Richard the Second; 10. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; 11. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth; 12. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 13. Much Ado About Nothing. ...
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1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 2. Love's Labour's Lost; 3. The Comedy of Errors; 4. Romeo and Juliet; 5. The Taming of the Shrew; 6. King John; 7. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 8. The Merchant of Venice; 9. King Richard the Second; 10. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; 11. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth; 12. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 13. Much Ado About Nothing.
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James Anthony is an award-winning author, yet comes from a distinctly non-literary background. A former tech-entrepreneur, he followed his passion for poetry by 'translating' all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, published by Penguin Random House in 2018. James writes across many genres, including travel, screenplays, and fiction, but retains an enduring love of the poetics of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter. After spending many years in the US, James now lives in his native London with his beloved wife Versha. For more information on James's writing, visit www.james-anthony.com
