A Midsummer Night's Dream - A critical guide (Paperback, Annotated Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	February 2010
Editors:	Regina Buccola
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	226
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84706-136-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	1-84706-136-2
Barcode:	9781847061362

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