{"product_id":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-r-s-white-9781350103870","title":"A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing","description":"This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. S. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135010387X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350103870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d","brand":"R. S. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075585765631,"sku":"9781350103870","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23ea7aeb-2194-4fc5-ab76-619a5b0d8380.jpg?v=1685460298","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-midsummer-nights-dream-r-s-white-9781350103870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}