A Midsummer Night's DreamMagic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Italian intermedii. At the end of Act Z, for example, the woodland scene was transformed into a prospect of grottoes, arches, and walks adorned with flowers in order to provide an elaborate setting for songs, a masque, and a dance by ...
... Italian intermedii. At the end of Act Z, for example, the woodland scene was transformed into a prospect of grottoes, arches, and walks adorned with flowers in order to provide an elaborate setting for songs, a masque, and a dance by ...
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... Italy (in a highly innovative film with English subtitles, I913), and Germany (Ein Sommernachtstraum, 191 3 ). Max Reinhardt's 1935 spoken film was a major event. At 132 minutes, it is in English and in color and features an array of ...
... Italy (in a highly innovative film with English subtitles, I913), and Germany (Ein Sommernachtstraum, 191 3 ). Max Reinhardt's 1935 spoken film was a major event. At 132 minutes, it is in English and in color and features an array of ...
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