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![]() ![]() I read this to familiarize myself with the play before I see it this summer. I'd somehow gotten away with not reading it in college, even though I was an English major. I can't wait to see this performed. I laughed more while reading this than I have at any of his other plays. I'm already imagining the visual comedy American Players Theatre will add to the already funny lines. Lots of fun! An entertaining and amusing tale, filled with an inexhaustible richness of symbolicism, atmosphere and verbal complexity. After having seen Shakespeare as a writer of tragic and twisted stories dealing with death and schemes as major leitmotifs for many years, a light-hearted story like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" proved to be exactly the right one to convince me of the direct opposite: that Shakespeare can also masterfully create romantic comedies full of amusing allusions. Belongs to Publisher Series — 27 more Haagse Comedie (41) New Penguin Shakespeare (NS2) New Warwick Shakespeare (1969, edited by Allan Rodway) Penguin Shakespeare (B6) The Pocket Library (PL-67) Signet Classic Shakespeare (CD171) Signet Classics (CD171) William Shakespeare, Theatralische Werke in 21 Einzelbänden, übersetzt von Christoph Martin Wieland (1) The Yale Shakespeare (10) Is contained in4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Works of William Shakespeare: The Henry Irving Shakespeare: Volume 3: King Henry VI Pt. 3, King Henry Vi Condensed, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 4 Plays: The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 5 Plays: As You Like It; The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 3 Plays: Love's Labour's Lost; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 5 Plays: The Comedy of Errors; Love's Labours Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 4 Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Ein Sommernachtstraum / Der Kaufmann von Venedig / Viel Lärm um nichts / Wie es euch gefällt / Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor by William Shakespeare 4 Plays: The Comedy of Errors; The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete by William Shakespeare (indirect) The Norton Shakespeare: Four-Volume Set by Stephen Greenblatt (indirect) The Norton Shakespeare: Two Volume Set by William Shakespeare (indirect) Is retold inHas the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationThe Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons by Russ Kick Is abridged inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guide
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HTML: Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction. Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander but has been promised to Demetrius by her father. Hermia's best friend Helena loves Demetrius, but in his obsession for Hermia Demetrius barely even notices her smitten friend. When Hermia and Lysander plan to elope all four find themselves in the forest late at night where the fairy Puck and his lord Oberon wreck havoc on the humans with a love potion that causes the victim to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. .No library descriptions found.
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