A midsummer night's dream : a critical guide
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A midsummer night's dream : a critical guide
（Continuum Renaissance drama）
Continuum, c2010
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-205) and index
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: hardback ISBN 9781847061355
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Series Introduction
- Timeline
- Introduction, Regina Buccola (Roosevelt University, USA)
- 1. The Critical Backstory, Dorothea Kehler (San Diego State University, USA)
- 2. Performance History, Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto, CA)
- 3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Tripthi Pillai (Loyola University, USA)
- 4. New Directions: Soundings in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Clayton (University of Minnesota, USA)
- 5. New Directions: The Weaver's Dream - Mnemonic scripts and Memorial texts, Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, USA)
- 6. New Directions: Spirits of Another Sort: Constructing Shakespeare's Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Matthew Woodcock (UEA, UK)
- 7. New Directions: Shakespeare and the Fairy King: Re-viewing the Cultural and Political Contexts of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Annaliese Connolly (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
- Resources, Adrienne L. Eastwood (San Jose State University, USA)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9781847061362
Description
This title offers a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's ??i??A Midsummer Night's Dream??i?? - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. ??i??A Midsummer Night's Dream??i?? 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. ??i??Continuum Renaissance Drama??i?? offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.
Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.
Table of Contents
- Series Introduction
- Timeline
- Introduction, Regina Buccola (Roosevelt University, USA)
- 1. The Critical Backstory, Dorothea Kehler (San Diego State University, USA)
- 2. Performance History, Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto, CA)
- 3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Tripthi Pillai (Loyola University, USA)
- 4. New Directions: Soundings in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Clayton (University of Minnesota, USA)
- 5. New Directions: The Weaver's Dream - Mnemonic scripts and Memorial texts, Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, USA)
- 6. New Directions: Spirits of Another Sort: Constructing Shakespeare's Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Matthew Woodcock (UEA, UK)
- 7. New Directions: Shakespeare and the Fairy King: Re-viewing the Cultural and Political Contexts of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Annaliese Connolly (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
- Resources, Adrienne L. Eastwood (San Jose State University, USA)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
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