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A Midsummer Nights Dream : Rsc Edition
Paperback Edition: 1
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy.
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The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made ‘our contemporary’ four centuries after his death.
Contents:
About the Editors:
ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
* An introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
* The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
* A scene-by-scene analysis
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An introduction to Shakespeare’s career and the Elizabethan theatre
* A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play
Introduction to the Play
Magical thinking
Metamorphosis
The festive world
'The poet’s eye ... the poet’s pen'
Introduction to the Text
Key Facts
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Textual Notes
Scene-by-scene Analysis
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance: the RSC and Beyond
Four Centuries of the Dream: An Overview
At the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Director’s Cut: interviews with Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran, Tim Supple
Shakespeare’s Career in the Theatre
Shakespeare’s Works: a Chronology
Further Reading and Viewing
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.
Pages : 175
Publisher : Palgrave
Publication date : 2008-09-05
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film