Brief Description
Comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.
Review Quotes
1. "In her excellent, comprehensive introduction to this exciting new collection of essays, Regina Buccola rightly states that "the authors gathered here have offered new visions of [A Midsummer Night's] Dream on the page and on the stage." Although several books and collections on the Dream have appeared over the years that help introduce students and teachers to various critical approaches making this play more thoroughly enjoyable as well as accessible, Buccola's collection updates and carries the process considerably further; hence, the book is an indispensable guide to anyone interested in plumbing deeper the rich depths of Shakespeare's comedy.'
- Jay Halio, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA
