A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy: Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or ‘puck,’ Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe.’
ISBN: 9780743477543
AUTHOR: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ISBN: 9780743477543
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Author: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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9780743477543

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2016

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240

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Widely esteemed as the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an actor and theatrical producer in addition to writing plays and sonnets. Dubbed 'The Bard of Avon, ' Shakespeare oversaw the building of the Globe Theatre in London, where a number of his plays were staged, the best-known of which include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. The First Folio, a printed book of 36 of his comedies, tragedies, and history plays, was published in 1623.

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