A Midsummer night's Dream

Видавництво: Wordsworth

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Рік видання2002

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer night's Dream one of the most popular of shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when the Bottom weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass is embraced by the voluptuously любовних Titania.