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Perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. The approaching wedding festivities of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, are delightfully crisscrossed... Read Full Overview

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents... Read Full Overview

Introduction by Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon VS. the Homo Sapiens Agenda The course of true love never did run smooth... Threatened with life in a convent or a death penalty, rebellious Hermia defies her father's wishes to marry Demetrius and plans to elope with... Read Full Overview

From the Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Shakespeare's most popular comedy--with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic--based on Grace Ioppolo's conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory... Read Full Overview

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and... Read Full Overview

- Now You Too Can Understand Shakespeare. -

Modern English side-by-side with original text includes study notes and stage directions.

For the first time collected in one volume, Shakespeare's original play side-by-side with an accurate line-by-line modern... Read Full Overview

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It is one of his most played pieces. The events of the play take place in and around Athens in ancient Greece and include scenes from a fairytale world inhabited by elves and fairies... Read Full Overview

This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of the play from theatrical neglect in the eighteenth century through the spectacular... Read Full Overview