This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy
equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language,
structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to
the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring
Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and
themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and
lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to
stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic
malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was
written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created
A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and
theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed
examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary,
technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's
performance history and its critical reception completes the
volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly
linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing
strategies in coursework and examinations.
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