A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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By (author) Shakespeare, William; Edited by Mowat, Barbara a; Edited by Werstine Paul
Image for A Midsummer Night’s DreamClick to enlargeA Midsummer Night’s Dreamby William Shakespeare (Author)Edited by:Dr.Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineSeries:Folger Shakespeare LibraryFormat:Paperback 304 pagesPublisher:Simon & SchusterImprint:Simon & SchusterISBN:9781501146213Published:12 Jul 2016Classifications:Shakespeare playsWeight:354gDimensions:138 x 211 x 19 (mm)Language:EnglishCountry of Origin:GBTariff Codes:49019900For sale in: Lebanon, Germany, France, Andorra, United Arab Emirates, (See full list)Other Formats Paperback / softback from £1.94Hardback from £4.00The authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couplesbut not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or ‘;puck,’ Robin Goodfellow.Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of ‘;Pyramus and Thisbe.’