A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

• 08 maart 2005
• 9780300106534

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The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist



The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist

“Each volume . . . proves to be a splendid addition to the series.”—Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University

From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare’s lyrical A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. This extensively annotated edition makes Midsummer completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and provides a rich resource for students, teachers, and the general reader.

Burton Raffel’s on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. In his introduction he explores the complexities of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the play’s extraordinary mélange of characters.