The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 26 de jan. de 1995 - 284 páginas A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is nonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns. In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam he makes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable. |
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... performance . The detailed commentaries pay particular attention to language and staging . Reprints of sources , music for songs , genealogical tables , maps , etc. are included where necessary ; many of the volumes are illustrated ...
... performance . The detailed commentaries pay particular attention to language and staging . Reprints of sources , music for songs , genealogical tables , maps , etc. are included where necessary ; many of the volumes are illustrated ...
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... performance as Bottom . My debt to the play's many editors , especially its most recent , Harold Brooks and Reg Foakes , is immeasurable ; the acknowledging of this debt often seems a gesture of academic courtesy but here is genuine and ...
... performance as Bottom . My debt to the play's many editors , especially its most recent , Harold Brooks and Reg Foakes , is immeasurable ; the acknowledging of this debt often seems a gesture of academic courtesy but here is genuine and ...
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... performances of Hermia's dream see H. R. Coursen , Shakespearean Performance as Interpretation ( Newark , Del . , 1992 ) , pp . 74-84 . If we shadows have offended , Think but this , 4 Introduction.
... performances of Hermia's dream see H. R. Coursen , Shakespearean Performance as Interpretation ( Newark , Del . , 1992 ) , pp . 74-84 . If we shadows have offended , Think but this , 4 Introduction.
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... performance at court , speaking directly to the Queen : Whatsoever we present , whether it be tedious ( which we fear ) or toyish ( which we doubt ) , sweet or sour , absolute or imperfect , or whatsoever , in all humbleness we all ...
... performance at court , speaking directly to the Queen : Whatsoever we present , whether it be tedious ( which we fear ) or toyish ( which we doubt ) , sweet or sour , absolute or imperfect , or whatsoever , in all humbleness we all ...
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... performance as a dream and recognizing the poet's work as the product of a dream . The most intriguing version of a dream - play , not least because of its vexed relationship to Shakespeare , is the ending of The Taming of A Shrew ...
... performance as a dream and recognizing the poet's work as the product of a dream . The most intriguing version of a dream - play , not least because of its vexed relationship to Shakespeare , is the ending of The Taming of A Shrew ...
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