Midsummer Night's Dream

by Helen Hackett

Book Overview

Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book will show how the play participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen. However, it is also very much a play about procreative change, set at one of the 'green hinges' of the year, to use Angela Carter's phrase. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746307543
• ISBN13: 9780746307540
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"