A midsummer night's dream /
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Series: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Stage, screen, art. The play in its time: staging and casting ; British productions: Restoration to nineteenth century ; British productions: the twentieth century and after ; Europe ; Beyond Europe ; Other media: cinema, music, art
- Sources and analogues: fairies and mortals. Fairies and fairy lore ; Ovid: the classics and the fairies ; Pyramus and Thisbe ; Theseus and Hippolyta: Plutarch, Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Themes and designs. Pastoral: the forest ; Dreamers and lovers ; Patriarchy ; Carnival, class, court ; Theatre, art and illusion ; The comedy of compromise
- Language and verse
- Appendices. 1: Casting chart ; 2: Date and occasion ; 3: The text.
