A Midsummer Night's DreamThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is edited with an introduction by Russ McDonald and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... written, performed, and received. For centuries in England, the primary the atrical tradition was nonprofessional. Craft guilds (or “mysteries”) provided religious drama – mystery plays – as part of the celebration of religious and ...
... written, performed, and received. For centuries in England, the primary the atrical tradition was nonprofessional. Craft guilds (or “mysteries”) provided religious drama – mystery plays – as part of the celebration of religious and ...
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... props, such as the “bar” at which a prisonerstood during a trial, the “mossy bank” where lovers reclined, an arbor for amorous conversation, a chariot, gallows, tables, trees, beds, thrones, writing desks, THE THEATRICAL WORLD ow xi.
... props, such as the “bar” at which a prisonerstood during a trial, the “mossy bank” where lovers reclined, an arbor for amorous conversation, a chariot, gallows, tables, trees, beds, thrones, writing desks, THE THEATRICAL WORLD ow xi.
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... writing desks, and so forth. Audiences might learn a scene's location from a sign (reading “Athens,” for example) carried across the stage (as in Bertolt Brecht's twentieth-century productions). Equally captivating (and equally ...
... writing desks, and so forth. Audiences might learn a scene's location from a sign (reading “Athens,” for example) carried across the stage (as in Bertolt Brecht's twentieth-century productions). Equally captivating (and equally ...
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... written and recorded words of his literary contemporaries Robert Greene, Henry Chettle, Francis Meres, John Davies of Hereford, Ben Jonson, and many others. Indeed, if we make due allowance for the bloating of modern, runof-the-mill ...
... written and recorded words of his literary contemporaries Robert Greene, Henry Chettle, Francis Meres, John Davies of Hereford, Ben Jonson, and many others. Indeed, if we make due allowance for the bloating of modern, runof-the-mill ...
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