Description
This title offers a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's ??i??A Midsummer Night's Dream??i?? - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. ??i??A Midsummer Night's Dream??i?? is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research. ??i??Continuum Renaissance Drama??i?? offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.
Comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.
About the Author
Regina Buccola is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Language at Roosevelt University, USA.
Reviews
"In her excellent, comprehensive introduction to this exciting new collection of essays, Regina Buccola rightly states that 'the authors gathered here have offered new visions of [A Midsummer Night's] Dream on the page and on the stage.' Although several books and collections on the Dream have appeared over the years that help introduce students and teachers to various critical approaches making this play more thoroughly enjoyable as well as accessible, Buccola's collection updates and carries the process considerably further; hence, the book is an indispensable guide to anyone interested in plumbing deeper the rich depths of Shakespeare's comedy." - Jay Halio, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781847061362
Author Dr Regina Buccola
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.
About the Author
Regina Buccola is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Language at Roosevelt University, USA.
Reviews
"In her excellent, comprehensive introduction to this exciting new collection of essays, Regina Buccola rightly states that 'the authors gathered here have offered new visions of [A Midsummer Night's] Dream on the page and on the stage.' Although several books and collections on the Dream have appeared over the years that help introduce students and teachers to various critical approaches making this play more thoroughly enjoyable as well as accessible, Buccola's collection updates and carries the process considerably further; hence, the book is an indispensable guide to anyone interested in plumbing deeper the rich depths of Shakespeare's comedy." - Jay Halio, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781847061362
Author Dr Regina Buccola
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
