Readings on A midsummer night's dream / Stephen P. Thompson, book editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literaturePublication details: San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1565106911
  • 9781565106918
  • 1565106903
  • 9781565106901
  • 0737703288
  • 9780737703283
  • 073770327X
  • 9780737703276
Other title:
  • Midsummer night's dream
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 21
LOC classification:
  • PR2827 .R43 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- William Shakespeare : a biography -- Characters and plot -- 1. Social and cultural contexts of A midsummer night's dream -- Play's festive spirit / Gail Kern Paster & Skiles Howard ; Actors and audiences / Alvin B. Kernan ; Fairy world / John Russell Brown ; Play's depiction of female power / Helen Hackett ; May games and metamorphoses / C.L. Barber ; Literary influences on A midsummer night's dream / R.A. Foakes -- 2. Plot of A midsummer night's dream -- Exposition of the plot in act one / Harold F. Brooks ; Dreams and the play's structure / Peter Holland ; Reflective plot structure / David P. Young ; Intellectual polarities / Peter Hollindale ; Ending of the play / Anne Barton -- 3. Themes of A midsummer night's dream -- Complexities of love / Catherine Belsey ; Lovers' transformation / Alexander Leggatt ; Dark side of love and marriage / David Bevington ; Play's affirmation of patriarchy / Shirley Nelson Garner ; Reason and imagination in the final act / Michael Mangan.
Summary: William Shakespeare.
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Foreword -- Introduction -- William Shakespeare : a biography -- Characters and plot -- 1. Social and cultural contexts of A midsummer night's dream -- Play's festive spirit / Gail Kern Paster & Skiles Howard ; Actors and audiences / Alvin B. Kernan ; Fairy world / John Russell Brown ; Play's depiction of female power / Helen Hackett ; May games and metamorphoses / C.L. Barber ; Literary influences on A midsummer night's dream / R.A. Foakes -- 2. Plot of A midsummer night's dream -- Exposition of the plot in act one / Harold F. Brooks ; Dreams and the play's structure / Peter Holland ; Reflective plot structure / David P. Young ; Intellectual polarities / Peter Hollindale ; Ending of the play / Anne Barton -- 3. Themes of A midsummer night's dream -- Complexities of love / Catherine Belsey ; Lovers' transformation / Alexander Leggatt ; Dark side of love and marriage / David Bevington ; Play's affirmation of patriarchy / Shirley Nelson Garner ; Reason and imagination in the final act / Michael Mangan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.

William Shakespeare.

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