The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.The editor brings fresh perspective on global productions and adaptations of this most loved of Shakespeare's comedies.
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A major new edition of Shakespeare's much studied and performed comedy by leading scholar Sukanta Chaudhuri.
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| General editors' preface |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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The play in its time: staging and casting |
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British productions: Restoration to nineteenth century |
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British productions: the twentieth century and after |
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Other media: cinema, music, art |
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Sources and analogues: fairies and mortals |
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Ovid: the classics and the fairies |
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Theseus and Hippolyta: Plutarch, Chaucer and Shakespeare |
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Theatre, art and illusion |
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105 | (3) |
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM |
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The fair vestal: politics and pageantry |
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Other indications of date |
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Genetics and transmission |
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The early editions and their copy |
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The printing of the early editions |
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309 | (7) |
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Abbreviations and references |
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Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His publications include Infirm Glory: Shakespeare and the renaissance Image of Man (Oxford, 1981), Renaissance Pastoral and Its English Developments (Oxford, 1989) and The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge, 2010). He has edited the two-volume Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (Manchester, 2016) besides other early modern texts and collections of essays. He was chief co-ordinator of Bichitra, the online variorum of the works of Rabindranath Tagore, and has translated widely from Bengali to English.
