A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393923575)

This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Shakespeare's most popular comedy--with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic--based on Grace Ioppolo's conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
- Five illustrations.
- Seven sources for the play, including those by Geoffrey Chaucer, Plutarch, and Lucius Apuleius.
- Fifteen wide-ranging critical assessments, including ones by Jan Kott, Margo Hendricks, and Peter Brook.
- Adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Robert Cox and Henry Purcell and Elkanah Settle.
- A Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.


Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0393923576
ISBN-13: 9780393923575
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.60d