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A midsummer night's dream, 1600

[written by William Shakespeare ; prepared by Thomas L. Berger and checked by G. R. Proudfoot and the general editor]

(Malone Society reprints, v. 157)

published for the Malone Society by Oxford University Press, 1995, c1996

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A midsummer night's dream

A midsommer nights dreame

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A photofacsimile reproduction of the First Quarto in the Huntington Library, California

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed around 1595 and published in 1600, in a quarto printed by Richard Bradock. This edition provides a photographic facsimile of this text taken from the Huntingdon Library copy, one of the eight which survive. In his introduction the editor, Thomas L. Berger, discusses the nature of the manuscript from which the printer worked, reconstructs the printing process, and assesses its impact on the text. Professor Berger also analyses the many interesting differences, in stage directions and the assignment of speeches, between the Quarto and Folio versions of the play, and considers the extent to which that may be the result of Shakespeare's own revisons. The text reproduced here includes both Quarto and Folio through-line-numbering in the margin , and a table is appended which matches the Quarto pages and line numbers with the act, scene,and line numbers of the Riverside Shakespeare.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA27941852
  • ISBN
    • 0197290337
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 66 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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