A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition)

Author: William Shakespeare

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Price : $27.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781840228502
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Publication date : 01 September 2023
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Author : William Shakespeare
Series : Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
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Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania. Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night's Dreamhave emphasised the enchanting, spectacular, ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage.

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